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For a while I've been building my resume(s) by using a LaTeX template (specifically [0]) and copy-pasting data from my LinkedIn profile which I keep fairly up-t
by somada141 7y ago
For a while I've been building my resume(s) by using a LaTeX template (specifically [0]) and copy-pasting data from my LinkedIn profile which I keep fairly up-to-date. It's worked pretty well for me especially when I had to put together academic resumes for which I could just add my publication through the standard LaTeX bibliography practices.
I've toyed with the idea of making a resume generator SaaS where the user would enter their LinkedIn URL which my app would scrape and use it to populate different LaTeX templates rendered server-side into PDFs (for free) while offering some sort of editor or the raw LaTeX (in a premium version) where the user could apply edits.
While AFAIK scraping LinkedIn was deemed lawful in some previous court case [1] I fear it would be a hard sell. Wonder what kinda trouble I would run into.
[0] https://www.sharelatex.com/templates/cv-or-resume/fancy-cv https://www.sharelatex.com/templates/cv-or-resume/fancy-cv
[1] http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2019/09/09/17-16783.pdf http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2019/09/09/17...