Retrieving the employee count on LinkedIn

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#1

I am trying to retrieve the employee count from LinkedIn company page using XPathOnUrl.

The URL is in the form https://www.linkedin.com/company/Company_Name/
The Xpath I retrieved is //*[@id="biz-connectedness-top"]/div/div/ul[2]/li[2]/a

Unfortunately, XPathOnUrl(LinkedIn_company_page_URL,//*[@id="biz-connectedness-top"]/div/div/ul[2]/li[2]/a) doesn't return anything (blank cell)

Any help is appreciated!

#2

Can you reach the company page when you are not logged in? If not, simple XPath requests won't work. This change in security is probably a result of the scraping drama a few months ago:
https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/15/linkedin-sues-scrapers/

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#3

Thanks. Indeed I cannot access the page if not logged in.

Does anyone know an alternate option using RegexpFindOnUrl?

#4

I found that
• XPathOnUrl(URL,"//body/div/div/div/div/div/div/p")
• XPathOnUrl(URL,"//body/div/div/div/div/div/div/div/p")

Would work for the companydescription and its specialities
PROVIDED the URL of LinkedIn company page is finishing w/ "/"

I cannot retrieve the "Employees on LinkedIn" though