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 ^_-
3 Apr 24, 2022
44 Jan 03, 2023
5 Feb 19, 2022
42 Jan 05, 2023
40 Nov 10, 2022
2 Jul 28, 2022
573 Dec 20, 2022
1 Mar 29, 2022
157 May 24, 2022
0 Jan 20, 2022
219 Oct 03, 2022
69 Dec 26, 2022
1 Jul 27, 2022
4 Jun 01, 2022
2 Nov 03, 2022
1 Nov 07, 2022
2 Feb 16, 2022
30 Nov 13, 2022
1 Nov 16, 2021
0 Jul 26, 2021