HTTParty没有返回LinkedIn页面

Question

I'm trying to grab someone's full name off their LinkedIn profile using HTTParty and Nokogiri. For some reason, HTTParty is not returning the actual LinkedIn HTML page. It's something completely different (see my terminal output). I tried this code with other URLs and it works fine. Any ideas?

Here's my code:

# Store the LinkedIn URL form command line.
linkedin_url = "https://www.linkedin.com/in/janedoe"

# Get the contents of the LinkedIn page.
page = HTTParty.get(linkedin_url)

p page.parsed_response

EDIT: Turns out, the HTML page I'm getting back just contains a script that creates a redirect -- any suggestions on how I can reach the final page?

Answer 1

That is the page. It is HTML, and it performs a redirect to another page. Go to the specified link in your browser, and see if it redirects. If it does, use the link your given URL redirects to. That will also be HTML. If you need help parsing your HTML, DON'T USE REGEX .