UPDATE Try the golang version described at the end.

Deployed on GitHub pages here.

A tool to gather Learning classes completed along with details.

When run as a Node.js tool, it will parse all the Completed Courses of the configured user, It will save that data as ./artifact/sample/json, and it will generate

• public/index.html
• artifacts/learning-summary.mdx

The associated GH Action will deploy the index.html file.

The learning-summary.mdx can be manually copied to the my-blog2 directory and committed to that repo as post in the blog.

Install npm from the website or homebrew. You will also need yarn.

NOTE: Normally, you can use either npm or yarn to install modules. The debug of Chrome with DNS Manager (mising a valid certificate), discovered that we need older versions of some packages. This can be done with either npm or yarn. We currently only have this setup with the yarn.lock file.

For a Unbuntu system, use:

sudo apt-get install -y npm yarn

For other distributions, please search on Google.

First, there is a one-time setup of enviroment variables like:

export PUP_USERNAME=<LinkedIn User Name>
export PUP_PASSWORD=<LinkedIn User Password>
yarn install

From a command line:

yarn start

This should take a few minutes to navigate thru all the tabs.

You can also runs this 'headless' or without a browser window. Look for 'headless' in site.js.

There are number of things can be changed quickly in the source code. Eventually they will be added as program options.

Look for "INTERNAL OPTION".

    browserType:     "firefox", // "chrome, firefox"
    headless:        false,     // run without windows
    scrollToBottom:   true,     // scroll page to bottom (WARNING: non-visible thumbnails are not loaded until page is scrolled)
    gatherDetails:    true,     // parse the details

Puppeteer can run automated tests with both Chrome (technically the Chromium build) and Firefox.

Headless is the ability to run a web page without showing on the screen. This mode can be used for automated testing. This works with both Chrome and Firefox.

• cd public
• python -m SimpleHTTPServer
• open http://localhost:8000/

• options must be set in code
• GH Actions almost works, but LinkedIn flags login from an unknown IP address (see saved for .yml file)

• pull course example files (done in Golang version)

Some ideas for future changes:

• Create summary page from data

As a side project to learn Golang, this was rewritten in Go and chromedp. Go is a little more difficult than javascript or python, but it seems to run a little faster. Also, chromedp will allow automating the login to Linkedin Learning and can run headless.

Install golang here

chromedp library.

go run main.go or go run main.go fromlinks

• save as json
• partial update