- I wanted to get profile picture of a LinkedIn user by using his/her linkedin id. I have earlier created this github repository which extract publically available profile data including profile picture and other details such as experience, education etc.
- But due to restrictions by LinkedIn, it was not able to login on remote server in order to extract profile data. So, I decided to fetch profile pictures that are available through google image search. This method is not able to extract profile picture for all the users due to user's privacy settings and google's algorithm behind image search but, we can get some profile pictures without logging in linkedin.
To be able to use this library, you need to enable Google Custom Search API, generate API key credentials and set a project:
- Visit https://console.developers.google.com and create a project.
- Visit https://console.developers.google.com/apis/library/customsearch.googleapis.com and enable "Custom Search API" for your project.
- Visit https://console.developers.google.com/apis/credentials and generate API key credentials for your project.
- Visit https://cse.google.com/cse/all and in the web form where you create/edit your custom search engine.
- Enable "Image search" and disable "Search the entire web" option.
- Add specific page url as "*.linkedin.com/in/*" in "Sites to search" option.
After setting up your Google developers account and project, you should have been provided with developers API key and project CX.
Install directly from the GitHub repository
pip install git+https://github.com/shashankdeshpande/linkedin-profile-picture.git> from linkedin_profile_picture import ProfilePicture
> profile = ProfilePicture("your_dev_key","your_project_cx")> res = profile.search("linkedin_id")
> res.link
"https://media-exp1.licdn.com/dms/image/C5103AQFg0lOJGLL5nQ/profile-displayphoto-shrink_200_200/0?e=1605139200&v=beta&t=ezcdygbf8i6Hz7DLdZ2xbKkzpbpPlFHryQ_uUJ2XW-8"