Q: Will LinkedIn Recommendations be add as an option for importable reviews?
scottvayner
May 19, 2025A: You mean on the personal LinkedIn profiles? I haven't considered that.
jared194
Verified purchaser
Yes. I'm currently using Senja on my website because they allow you to bring those over and I have a few people who've written testimonials there as recommendations. I know a few other freelancers and one-man businesses doing the same.
I see. You can also import them via CSV file. The issue though is the platform needs a star rating at the moment. I’d have to import them as 5 star reviews if I build the scraper. Are they scraping or connecting to LinkedIn via OAuth?
Verified purchaser
It scraped the review. I just had to provide a link to my profile, and it pulled the comment and added a LinkedIn logo in the top-right corner to indicate where it came from.
I built and added a scraper for it, but it can only add the ones shown on the unauthenticated page. I was able to grab a photo, name, and review, but not a date.
Verified purchaser
That's amazing! Not sure how things work on the back end with building scrapers, but you may be able to pull all of the recommendations if /details/recommendations/ is tacked onto the end of the URL. Either way, I'll check this out and probably buy a license later today.
I tried to grab them all, but you need to be signed in to visit the detail page. Maybe there is a workaround. I’m not sure.
Verified purchaser
No worries. I manually added the others and added the LinkedIn tag to them on my account. When I imported the reviews, the name and review came over in the data pull, but I did notice that it didn't pull the photo like you mentioned above. When I selected to include the source by the Avatar, a white circle appeared in the bottom corner of the initials of the user.