AttributeError when trying to parse the html file

[popovvasile]

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/pylinkedin", line 11, in
load_entry_point('scrape-linkedin==0.1', 'console_scripts', 'pylinkedin')()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 722, in call
return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 697, in main
rv = self.invoke(ctx)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 895, in invoke
return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 535, in invoke
return callback(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pylinkedin/cli.py", line 37, in scrape
pprint(linkedin_profile.to_dict())
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pylinkedin/scraper.py", line 569, in to_dict
'name': self.name,
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pylinkedin/scraper.py", line 220, in name
return extract_one(self.get_xp(self.xp_header, './/h1[@id="name"]/text()'))
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pylinkedin/scraper.py", line 162, in get_xp
return clean(origin.xpath(path))
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'xpath'

[rafaelmbsouza]

From what I noticed, linkedin sometimes does not load the public formatting for a profile. It sometimes will throw you behind a login wall if you attempt multiple times to retrieve profiles. Check if that is happening to you. If you trace back the error, the root cause lies in xp_header being NoneType, as the browser was not able to find it through its xpath. Also, if the page loading is a logged page, the formatting of the profile looks quite different. Therefore, you'll have some difficulty retrieving the info you are looking for.