sparkton / harvestin

HarvestIn

Contributors:

• Navid Kagalwalla
• Akash Dubey

HarvestIn is a LinkedIn Recon Tool which authenticates to the LinkedIn API and uses the API to perform several tasks such as:

• Harvest Information from Profiles
• Automated Connection Requests

Usage

Profile Harvesting

By supplying one or more company names to the harvest command, HarvestIn will make API calls to acquire the numeric identifier of a target company identifier and proceed to enumerate employees from the people section of the target company.

Example

If the target is Starbucks and the company name was found to be starbucks via search engine, then the following command would attempt to harvest profiles and write CSV records to starbucks.csv:

WARNING: Use of the -ac flag will result in a connection request being sent to each accessible profile.If you wish to filter for particlar profiles, use the -of flag to dump the results to disk and select specific records via grep and use the add_contacts subcommand to create connection requests.

Navids-MacBook-Pro:HarvestIn navidkagalwalla$ export creds='username':'password'
Navids-MacBook-Pro:HarvestIn navidkagalwalla$ ./plproject.py harvest -C "$creds" -cns starbucks -of starbucks.csv

[+] Starting new CSV file: starbucks.csv
[+] Authenticating session
[+] Company Identifier for starbucks: 2271
[+] Getting initial profiles
[+] Available profiles: 131173
[+] Extracting remaining profiles (this will take a bit)
[+] Done! Total known profiles: 332
[+] Writing output to starbucks.csv
[+] Done!
[+] Logging out
[+] Done...exiting

Limitations

LinkedIn will allow only the first 1,000 search results to be returned when harvesting contact information, however the same results are not returned each time a series of searches are applied. Run the harvest command multiple times to capture more contacts. To increase the number of contacts a given profile can access:

• Generate connection requests for company people via the add_contacts subcommand or the -ac flag of the harvest command

Connection Request Generation

Use the add_contacts subcommand to generate connection requests for target profiles. This command takes the name of a CSV file generated by the harvest subommand and will indiscriminately send a connection request for each record.

Example

To send a connection request to each of the profiles enumerated from Starbucks, run the following command. After execution, visit the My Network tab of your LinkedIn profile to observe the connection requests.

Navids-MacBook-Pro:HarvestIn navidkagalwalla$ ./plproject.py add_contacts -if starbucks.csv -C "$creds"

[+] Loading CSV file: starbucks.csv
[+] Total profiles loaded: 332
[+] Authenticating session
[+] Sending connection requests, which will take some time...
[+] Sending Connection Request 1: Shawn Harris, Principal Enterprise Security Architect @ starbucks
[+] Sending Connection Request 2:  , Director HR at TE Connectivity @ starbucks
[+] Writing profiles to file: starbucks.csv
[+] Logging out
[+] Done...exiting