Written by Goulin Khoge
ā¢November 24, 2022
See people who gave me unfollow on LinkendIn
Context
I discovered by chance a view in LinkedIn that shows the list of people who are following you, you can find it in: My profile -> Activity -> N followers, or by going to www.linkedin.com/feed/followers:
I also know that there is a page where you can see your connections, so I noticed that the people who are following me are fewer than the people that I'm connected with (2)!
Getting the list of connections and followers in JSON
Having only 2 people who gave me an "unfollow" probably means that I'm not that pushy in terms of sharing and resharing content! However, I'm still curious to know who these people are š„ø
I wrote a script that I run when viewing my profile, which gives me the list of people that I'm connected with:
js
const connections = [];
const wait = (t) => new Promise((s) => setTimeout(s, t));
const queryConnections = () =>
[
...document.querySelectorAll(
".entity-result__content span > a > span > span:nth-child(1)"
),
].map((e) => e.textContent.trim());
const getMyConnections = async () => {
for (let i = 0; i < 11; i++) {
window.scrollTo(0, document.body.scrollHeight);
connections.push(...queryConnections());
await wait(500);
document.querySelector(".ember-view button[aria-label='Next']").click();
await wait(1500 + Math.floor(Math.random() * 2000));
}
connections.push(...queryConnections());
};
getMyConnections().then(console.log(connections));The next step is to get the other list, using the same strategy. I wrote another script that I run in the followers' view of the current working URL, which gives me the list of people that are following me:
js
const wait = (t) => new Promise((s) => setTimeout(s, t));
const gotoEndOfPage = async () => {
while (document.querySelector(".scaffold-finite-scroll__load-button")) {
window.scrollTo(0, document.body.scrollHeight);
await wait(2000);
}
};
const getMyFollowers = async () => {
await gotoEndOfPage();
return [
...document.querySelectorAll(
".feed-following-list .follows-recommendation-card__name"
),
].map((e) => e.textContent.trim());
};
let followers;
getMyFollowers().then((r) => {
followers = r;
console.log(followers);
});Now let's see which of our colleagues aren't interested in what we say š¤Æ
js
// const connections = [...]
// const followers = [...]
followersSet = new Set(followers);
loosers = connections.filter((person) => !followersSet.has(person));
console.log(
"connections to remove:\n",
loosers.map((e) => `\t- john doe`).join("\n")
);
Final thoughts
Jokes aside, there are a lot of reasons a person may unfollow you on LinkedIn. Don't take it too personally.
