Cardician makes it quick and easy to keep track of professional connections. Add names and profile links to a Google sheet from the comfort of your command line. Just provide a LinkedIn URL and let Cardician do the rest.
Cardician was born out of laziness; Specifically, I got tired of copy-pasting information about connections into my spreadsheet while searching for a new job.
- Ruby (w/ Google Drive, LinkedIn, Dotenv, & Colorize Gems)
- Clone the repository.
- Run bundle install in the root directory to install the necessary gems.
- Create a .env file with the following API keys:
LINKEDIN_ID- Provided upon registering a Linkedin appLINKEDIN_SECRET- Same as aboveGSHEET_ID- Visible in the Google sheet URL
- Set up a bash alias to invoke Cardian from any directory:
alias cardician=ruby\ /Users/scallaway/Desktop/Cardician/cardician.rb
To add a connection, pass their Linkedin URL as a command line argument to the main Ruby file. Like so:
$ ruby /Cardician/lib/cardician.rb https://www.linkedin.com/in/sherwoodcallaway
On first use, Cardician prompts the user to authenticate with Linkedin and Google. It conveniently saves these credentials for later.