Authenticity of Linkedin Profiles
Authenticity of Linkedin Profiles poster Webapp demo webapp Problem Lot of people put false work experience and other information on Linkedin in order to gain attention of the recruiters. Given a linkedin profile, determine the evidence of authenticity of information present on the user's linkedin profile from publicly available information about that user on other social networks (for example facebook). Data Collection Approach : Given a username on linkedin, we scrape the information on the profile (such as work experience, education etc). From the personal information such as name, age, city etc, we then go to facebook and search for similar profiles. We try to find the most similar profile from the search result. We then scrape the timeline of the user and compare that information with the information on linkedin profile. Method : Linkedin does not provide any API to get the user profile information. Wrote a scraper using selenium to ...