Hello everyone,
I want to get someones’ or companies’ post from Linkedin by taking screenshot. I tried many ways:
I got screenshot of a post by taking screenshot of specific area. But I got specific area of "one"post. I want to take other posts also. How can i make it permanent ?
My question is:
how to take screenshots of linkedin posts continually ?
Interesting. One thing you can try is to go to their posts by navigating to the person profile and then to activity and then click on posts. Now there you have an option to copy post link, spy that element and get the link
Now get the link using attributes and use that link to open the post then take a screnshot
Repeat by identifying a selector for copy link which can be used in combination with idx so that idx can be incremented and each post url can be taken
cheers
I’ll apply and let you know about result
While I am checking your advice, could you please take a look at that: Scraping linkedin post from a certain profile
does it make sense on my project?
The suggestion looks good…but yea if you are able to open that xaml you can try… but yea the idea to get is similar…thats how it can be acheived…
Cheers
Use the Get Position activity to get the clipping region for the post and then pass that info to Take Screenshot.
But position of every post is not same. Some of them taller or shorter. How can I get/find fixed size?
That’s what the Get Position activity does. It gets the position of the UI Element you designate. So you need to get the position of the current post before taking the screenshot.
you are absolutely right but can i get the location of each post? I will try!
If you have each individual posts (by url)then you will have the corresponding selectors to use get position
Cheers
If there are multiple posts on a page, then you can use For Each UI Element to loop through all the posts.
Properties of Get Position:
Expression that outputs top, left, right, and bottom in logs:
"Post position (T/L/R/B) " + CurrentElementRectangle.Top.ToString + “/” + CurrentElementRectangle.Left.ToString + “/” + CurrentElementRectangle.Right.ToString + “/” + CurrentElementRectangle.Bottom.ToString
Test.xaml (17.8 KB)
NOTE: There are a lot of extra variables in that xaml file, sorry about that. It’s a scratchpad file I use to try things out. The only variables I had to create for the above process are CurrentElementText and CurrentElementRectangle.
yeah it works, it gets texts. I think I can set this up to take screenshots. I am trying it
If your issue is resolved please mark the solution so that it helps others
Cheers
I just realized that the Take Screenshot activity accepts an input element. So you can just directly give it CurrentElement without worrying about finding the rectangle numbers and passing them.
Thx so much Paul. I just wonder which componets you added or removed? could you please share the your last example’s file? 
The only thing I did was drop the Take Screenshot activity into For Each UI Element and pass it CurrentElement. It automatically uses the CurrentElement properties to take a screenshot of the correct screen area.
Hi @postwick
Doesn’t it get all the child elements other than as opposing to it he needs only post photos not the separate elements of post again
Cheers
No, you’re confusing For Each UI Element with Find Children. For Each UI Element allows you to designate an item on the screen and it’ll find (and loop through) all the similar elements. In my example the element I clicked was the first post title and it automatically found all post titles.
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