li_at cookie to selenium session

[ghost]

Hi,

Hope you are all well !

Because of Linkedin's anti-scraping measures, it would be interesting to make the selenium browser look like an actual user. To do this, we need to add the li_at cookie to the selenium session.

Is it possible to add to recon-archy ?

Getting LI_AT

Navigate to www.linkedin.com and log in
Open browser developer tools (Ctrl-Shift-I or right click -> inspect element)
Select the appropriate tab for your browser (Application on Chrome, Storage on Firefox)
Click the Cookies dropdown on the left-hand menu, and select the www.linkedin.com option
Find and copy the li_at value

Setting LI_AT

$ export LI_AT=YOUR_LI_AT_VALUE

Cheers,
X

[shadawck]

Hello,
Thanks for opening this issue !

I don't really know if adding LI_AT cookies is really useful in my implementation, but it costs me nothing to add it. It will provide additional security and reliability.

I will write a method to automatically get and export LI_AT cookie (it will be available in the next version)

Have a good evening 🙂