The objective of this Information Gathering tool is to extract Linkedin users based on their organization, job description, or email address.InSpy was written in Python by gojhonny.
Multiple Functionalities
TechSpy – Crawls LinkedIn job listings for technologies used by the provider company. It attempts to identify technologies by matching job descriptions to keywords from a new line delimited file.
EmpSpy – Crawls LinkedIn for employees working at the provided company. It searches for employees by title and/or departments from a new line delimited file. It may also create emails for the identified employees if the user specifies an email format.
The tool was published 2 years in GitHub and with the release of Kali Linux 2017.3, it was added to the repo. In this Kali Linux tutorial, we show how to use InSpy to gather information from Linkedin.
Working with InSpy
To Clone the tool from GitHub, if you are using an older version of Kali Linux
git clone https://github.com/gojhonny/InSpy.git
The tool consists of a wordlist that has more than 300 job titles, and department names and the TechSpy crawl LinkedIn for technologies.
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python inspy.py –empspy /root/In-Spy/wordlists/title-list-large.txt cybersecurity
To Extract list of email address that matching to the company and the domain name @domain.com
python InSpy.py –empspy /root/In-Spy/wordlists/title-list-large.txt –emailformat first.last@domain.com company
To list the profiles based on Tech specification
python InSpy.py –empspy /root/In-Spy/wordlists/tech-list-large.txt siem
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Hi,I'm having this error.Any solution? I have downloaded the BeautifulSoup tar file but i can't proceed after that.
root@kali:~/InSpy# python InSpy.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "InSpy.py", line 7, in
from lib.soup import *
File "/root/InSpy/lib/soup.py", line 1, in
import BeautifulSoup, json
ImportError: No module named BeautifulSoup