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Benjamin Liu 51a9456305 feat(linkedin): add people-search command (#1649)
* feat(linkedin): add people-search command (#1621)

Closes #1621. Adds opencli linkedin people-search <keywords> for
finding people on standard LinkedIn (not Sales Navigator).

Architecture note. Standard LinkedIn moved its people search results
page to Server-Driven UI / React Server Components on the
/flagship-web/rsc-action/... path stack. The legacy Voyager REST
endpoint /voyager/api/search/dash/clusters returns HTTP 500 from a
web context; its modern camelCase rename voyagerSearchDashClusters
returns the same. The result list is rendered server-side and the
page HTML IS the result payload; Voyager calls from the page are
sidebar / notification concerns, not search results.

Extraction strategy. LinkedIn SSR uses obfuscated CSS class hashes
(e.g. _997b7c77) that rotate on every deploy AND display:contents
wrappers that flatten the DOM tree. Class-based selectors, walk-up-
to-card logic, and anchor-pair element ranges all fail because no
element boundary matches a person's card.

Working approach: extract main.innerText once, split by newline,
slice between consecutive person names. The names come from the
aria-hidden spans of /in/<handle> anchors. LinkedIn's SSR emits a
card as a name line followed by degree badge / headline / location
/ action labels before the next card's name line - a layout that
has been stable through several DOM refactors.

Critical filter: /in/<handle> anchors over-count because LinkedIn
renders each mutual connection as a /in/ anchor inside another
card's result. The skip() predicate during name-line lookup drops
mutual-connection lines ("X, Y and N other mutual connections"), so
anchors that don't have a real name line are filtered out.

CUL caveat. LinkedIn imposes a monthly Commercial Use Limit on
people search against the standard site. Burst behaviour is
irrelevant - the limit is a calendar-month counter. The adapter
runs one navigation per invocation (no pagination) so a single call
costs exactly one CUL query. --limit is capped at 10 to keep a
single call's information density high without surfacing the
"reached commercial use limit" yellow banner faster.

Schema:
  rank, name, headline, location, profile_url

Live verified against kyfw 12306-style throttled cadence (sleep 60s
between dev iterations to keep CUL consumption visible): 5/5 rows
populated with name + headline + location + profile_url for the
keyword "reinforcement learning". Mutual-connection anchors
correctly filtered out so the row order matches LinkedIn's own
ranking.

Tests: 10 unit tests covering URL construction, limit validation,
extraction-script invariants (anchor enumeration, text-slice
approach, mutual-connection filter, aria-hidden span as name source),
limit slicing, AuthRequiredError on missing JSESSIONID, CUL-
flavoured CommandExecutionError on redirect, EmptyResultError on
zero rows, ArgumentError on empty keywords, and registry shape.

* fix(linkedin): harden people search typed boundaries

* fix(linkedin): fail people search candidate parser drift

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Co-authored-by: jackwener <jakevingoo@gmail.com>
2026-05-20 00:40:53 +08:00
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