Login to Linkedin with JSoup

Question

I need to register on Linkedin with Jsoup, preferably.

This is what I use to log in to another site, but it does not work for Linkedin.

Connection.Response res = Jsoup .connect("https://www.linkedin.com/uas/login?goback=&trk=hb_signin") .data("session_key", mail, "session_password", password) .method(Connection.Method.POST) .timeout(60000). // Also tried "https://www.linkedin.com/uas/login-submit" Map<String, String> loginCookies = res.cookies(); //Checking a profile to see if it was succesful or if it returns the login page. Document currentPage = Jsoup.connect(someProfileLink).cookies(loginCookies).timeout(10000). System.out.println("" + currentPage.text()); 

What am I doing wrong?

I need to be able to retrieve user profiles using a web crawler, but no matter what I try, I cannot get login cookies.

Answer 1

You can log in to Linkedin with this code:

  try { String url = "https://www.linkedin.com/uas/login?goback=&trk=hb_signin"; Connection.Response response = Jsoup .connect(url) .method(Connection.Method.GET) .execute(); Document responseDocument = response.parse(); Element loginCsrfParam = responseDocument .select("input[name=loginCsrfParam]") .first(); response = Jsoup.connect("https://www.linkedin.com/uas/login-submit") .cookies(response.cookies()) .data("loginCsrfParam", loginCsrfParam.attr("value")) .data("session_key", "your_login") .data("session_password", "your_password") .method(Connection.Method.POST) .followRedirects(true) .execute(); Document document = response.parse(); // System.out.println(document) System.out.println("Welcome " + document.select(".act-set-name-split-link").html()); } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); }