LinkedIn_Apply

A Python bot that will apply to the, "Easy Apply", jobs based on your preferences.

• I may be adding Streamlit and Ollama at somepoint. Therefore, they are in the requirements.txt

• This repo/codebase is a work in progress, & is intended to be an updated version of my other linkedin bot

To test the bot use this script: test_apply_working_full.py

There are many other test scripts for various trouble shooting & other use-cases in the Test_Scripts folder

You will need to download the Chrome Driver and palce it in the directory alongside the python files

https://googlechromelabs.github.io/chrome-for-testing/#stable

TO DO - Fixes and Changes

In order of most to least important

How the Bot works

• Create an Excalabur Draw diagram - high-level overview of how this bot works

Browser handling issues

• Eliminate launching a new browser/login session with each iteration.
• Each URL is being visited in the same window
• Conduct all searches and applications within one browser session.

Primary purpose of the Bot: Completion of the Easy apply section

• Currently troubleshooting XPath click using:

test_apply_working_full.py script

• Once the above is working, itegrate it's functionality into linkedin.py

• Resolve the click on "Easy apply" button: Works in click_button_test.py

• Implement separation of concerns for finding and clicking elements

• Create module for testing sign in

• Create a module to test login and apply

• Create functionality to handle the submit apply pop-up.

  • clicking Next (submit application) and
  • click review
  • Modify test_apply.py to be re-run without repeating the login everytime

• Integrate the four methods used to click the Easy Apply button into linkedin.py

  • Do this using a nested function??

• Tie it all together in main.py

After all of the Easy apply functionality is complete.

• Make bot able to apply on external links
• Make it able to register & logon to external job applications

Misc..

• Follow PEP 8 Syle Guide coding conventions:
• Change all Variable and Function names to lower case
• Avoid account login issues
• Headless browser experience (Only the login and home page is shown. No link visitin.)
• You can change this in the config.py file. Where it says headless = True

Other

• Fix specified HTML element discovery issues
• Chromium not woking properly with Linux
• More robustness of the bot for different fields
• Add support to other major job seeking websites (Glassdoor, AngelCo, Greenhouse,
• Possibly need? Evade Anti-Bot detection
• If necessary, Maybe retrieve and use session cookies from the browser?

Install & use

Clone the repository & Install the requirments**

git clone https://github.com/LinuxUser255/LinkedIn_Apply.git

cd LinkedIn_Apply

Download & Activate the virtual enviroment

curl -LO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LinuxUser255/LinkedIn_Apply/refs/heads/main/virtenv_acitvate.sh | sh virtenv_acitvate.sh 

the install pip3 requirements

pip3 install -r requirements.yml

The bot can run either by executing main.py or linkedin.py. Both ways work.