XingDumper
Python 3 script to dump company employees from XING API. Perfect OSINT tool ;-)
The results contain firstname, lastname, position, gender, location and a user's profile link. Only 2 API calls are required to retrieve all employees.
With the --full CLI flag an additional API request will be made for each employee to retrieve contact details such as email, fax, mobile and phone number. However, this data is most often unset by XING users.
How-To
- Sign into www.xing.com and retrieve your
logincookie value e.g. via developer tools - Specify your cookie value in the python script's variable
LOGIN_COOKIEor via the CLI flag--cookie - Browse your company on XING and note the url
- Install requirements via
pip install -r requirements.txt - Run the Python script and enjoy results
Usage
usage: xingdumper.py [-h] --url
[--count
] [--cookie
] [--full] [--quiet]
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--url
A XING company url - https://xing.com/pages/
--count
Amount of employees to extract - max. 2999 --cookie
XING 'login' cookie for authentication --full Dump additional contact details (slow) - email, phone, fax, mobile --quiet Show employee results only
Examples
Dumping all Audi employees from XING API (max. 3000) into outfile using --quiet mode:
python3 xingdumper.py --url https://www.xing.com/pages/audiag --quiet > audi_employees.out
Dumping 10 Apple employees from XING API with additional contact details as terminal output:
python3 xingdumper.py --url https://www.xing.com/pages/appleretaildeutschlandgmbh --count 10 --full
Note: Contact details are most often empty. We Germans take privacy seriously! Further, the details may only be accessible if you already belong to the contact list of the crawled employee. Kinda unlikely, however the default privacy settings of XING would allow a retrival, if the data is configured and the privacy settings not changed by the user.
Results
The script will return employee data as semi-colon separated values (like CSV):
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[i] Company Name: Apple
[i] Company X-ID: 271572.8873b4
[i] Company Slug: appleretaildeutschlandgmbh
[i] Dumping Date: 24/12/2021 13:37:00
Firstname;Lastname;Position;Gender;Location;E-Mail;Fax;Mobile;Phone;Profile
Mina;Abdallah;RFIC Design Engineer;MALE;Unterhaching,Deutschland;None;None;None;None;https://www.xing.com/profile/Mina_Abdallah
Isma;Abdan;Gabelstaplerfahrer;MALE;Huelva,Spanien;None;None;None;None;https://www.xing.com/profile/Isma_Abdan
[i] Successfully crawled 2 Apple employees. Hurray ^_-
92 Dec 02, 2022
65 Nov 09, 2022
4 Jun 05, 2022
6 Aug 16, 2022
47 Oct 16, 2022
17 Aug 24, 2022
59 Jan 08, 2023
4 Jun 24, 2021
3 Sep 01, 2022
1 Oct 21, 2021
5 Jan 27, 2022
2 Nov 10, 2021
93 Dec 23, 2022
0 Jan 20, 2022
5 Feb 01, 2022
2 Dec 12, 2021
118 Dec 30, 2022
1 Jan 01, 2022
5 Apr 22, 2022
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