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Show HN: An extension to turn your LinkedIn into a resume

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Re: Show HN: An extension to turn your LinkedIn into a resume

#21

Post by piptastic »

This encounters a javascript error on my profile:

  Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'trim' of undefined
    at init. (inject.js:69)
    at init. (jquery.min.js:4)
    at l (jquery.min.js:4)
    at Object.add [as done] (jquery.min.js:4)
    at Array. (jquery.min.js:4)
    at Function.each (jquery.min.js:4)
    at Object. (jquery.min.js:4)
    at Function.Deferred (jquery.min.js:4)
    at Object.then (jquery.min.js:4)
    at init. (inject.js:59)
userSummary = $(".pv-top-card-section__summary-text").html().trim();

Re: Show HN: An extension to turn your LinkedIn into a resume

#22

Post by mitchas »

piptastic wrote: post #21

This encounters a javascript error on my profile: Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'trim' of undefined at init. (inject.js:69) at init. (jquery.min.js:4) at l (jquery.min.js:4) at Object.add [as done] (jquery.min.js:4) at Array. (jquery.min.js:4) at Function.each (jquery.min.js:4) at Object. (jquery.min.js:4) at Function.Deferred (jquery.min.js:4) at Object.then (jquery.min.js:4) at init. (inject.js:59) userS…

Ah. Good catch. Do you have a really short summary/about paragraph under your picture?

It looks like it's trying to read that and can't find it.

I'll have to fix that.

Re: Show HN: An extension to turn your LinkedIn into a resume

#23

Post by piptastic »

mitchas wrote: post #22
piptastic wrote: post #21

This encounters a javascript error on my profile: Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'trim' of undefined at init. (inject.js:69) at init. (jquery.min.js:4) at l (jquery.min.js:4) at Object.add [as done] (jquery.min.js:4) at Array. (jquery.min.js:4) at Function.each (jquery.min.js:4) at Object. (jquery.min.js:4) at Function.Deferred (jquery.min.js:4) at Object.then (jquery.min.js:4) at init. (inject.js:59) userS…

Ah. Good catch. Do you have a really short summary/about paragraph under your picture? It looks like it's trying to read that and can't find it. I'll have to fix that.

Nope, mine is empty.

Re: Show HN: An extension to turn your LinkedIn into a resume

#24

Post by mitchas »

piptastic wrote: post #23
mitchas wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ah. Good catch. Do you have a really short summary/about paragraph under your picture? It looks like it's trying to read that and can't find it. I'll have to fix that.

Nope, mine is empty.

Yup. That's the issue. I'll have to make sure it checks for empty/short strings there.

Re: Show HN: An extension to turn your LinkedIn into a resume

#25

Post by mitchas »

chrisseldo wrote: post #20

> So you're saving and selling my information, then? > No. The information on your LinkedIn profile never leaves LinkedIn - except for your email address, which I am saving to use with some features in the future. I won't sell it, and I won't annoy you with pointless emails. I think it's important to state this on the front page, particularly by the "No strings attached" section. Many would consider collecting their…

Good point :) I changed the wording on the home page now.

When I initially put the home page up, I wasn't collecting anything.

Re: Show HN: An extension to turn your LinkedIn into a resume

#26

Post by Frye »

My girlfriend is a recruiter and spends a good amount of time formatting resumes of her clients. When I saw this I figured it would be a dream come true for her and anyone in her industry. Unfortunately resumes she submits have to follow a template created by her company.

Do you have any future plans to allow customizable resume templates?

Re: Show HN: An extension to turn your LinkedIn into a resume

#27

Post by reblws »

mitchas wrote: post #6
kobiguru wrote: post #4

can you add firefox to this .. for some reason i can not get the chrome to work on my system.

I actually just started looking into porting it to Firefox. I haven't made any extensions for FF before - and this is my first Chrome extension as well - so I'm not sure how much work it'll be to convert it. But it's definitely on the top of my todo list.

The main difference between Chrome and Firefox extensions is that Chrome uses a callback-based API while Firefox's is based on promises. Other than that they're functionally the same aside from some differences in the manifest and the namespace (Chrome uses `chrome` while Firefox uses `browser`). I think Firefox has some backwards compatibility with the callback interface for easier porting but I haven't tried.

There's a nice polyfill by Mozilla so you can use their promise interface in Chrome but it was missing some important apis last I checked (sessions and optional permissions). https://github.com/mozilla/webextension-polyfill

Re: Show HN: An extension to turn your LinkedIn into a resume

#29

Post by s3nnyy »

Great project! This will be used by recruiters like myself. Only today I had to send an ugly Linkedin-PDF resume because an applicant didn't have anything else. I would have used ceev.io, if I knew about it before!

Let me ask, aren't you afraid of this: If you get big enough, Linkedin will fiddle with their HTML and your app won't work anymore, right?

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