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Next, I would like to show you how can you extract the timestamp of any LinkedIn post and any LinkedIn

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comment?

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Now this is a little bit tricky because first we need to get the post ID and then convert it to binary

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to ones and zeros, and then take the first 42 binary digits and then convert them to decimal.

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And this number that you'll get at the end is a Unix time format that you can convert it to a readable

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date and time.

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Now let me show you an example.

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I'm going to post and I'm going to click on this post.

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And if we look in here we can only see that it were posted three months ago.

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And I think that he reposted this post by this person who works at the same company and wrote this comment.

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So the first thing we need to do is to copy the post ID.

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So here it is.

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It's in the URL.

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I'm going to copy it and then open a notepad and paste it in here.

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And then we can go to a website called Rapid Tables that will allow us to convert a decimal number to

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binary.

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So all I have to do is just to copy the post ID that I have got and put it in here, and then click

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on convert.

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And now we have this number converted to binary.

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I'm going to copy this number and then open my notepad again and paste the number.

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And then we need to select or copy the first 42 digits.

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And you can see that I have selected 42 digits.

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And you can read this in here I'm going to copy this number and then convert from binary to decimal.

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And then put the 42 digits that I have recently copied and then say convert.

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And then we will get a number.

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Next you need to copy this number which is a Unix timestamp, and then go to this website that I'm going

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to put its URL in the resources of this lecture that will convert Unix timestamp to a readable date

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and time.

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So I'm going to put this number in here and then say convert.

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And as you can see our we're able to get the exact time when this post were made.

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And you can see that it was on 16th of December 2023 at this time.

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Now if you want to find when a comment were made, it's very similar.

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So you want to go to a certain post.

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For example, let me go to comments in here and we can see that Rishi Cobra has commented on this post.

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And what I need to do is just to copy the link to comment, because we want to find when this comment

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were made and then I can open my notepad.

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Let me remove this number and add the link in here.

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The second ID which is this one, is the comment ID and we need to convert this to binary and then copy

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the first 42 numbers and then convert them to decimal.

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And after we convert this number to decimal, we can use Unix timestamp converter to find when this

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comment were made.

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Now there is an alternative solution to this which is a website called unf url.

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So all we need to do is to copy the URL of the post, and then go to this website and put the URL in

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here.

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And this website will analyze the URL.

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So you can see in here that he analyzed this URL.

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And it will first convert it to Unix timestamp and then convert it to a readable date and time.

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So if we want to find when a comment were posted, we also need to copy the URL, the comment URL and

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put it in this website And then click on here and this will show you the original post were made.

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This is the date and time.

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And here under Dash Comintern you will see when the comment were made.

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Another thing that I would like to show you is how you can uncover or find the redacted employee name.

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So when you search for a company, let's say Z security, and then go to its LinkedIn page and then

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go to employees, you will see all the people who work at that company.

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And some people have profile images and full name and description, and some people doesn't have a profile

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picture and their name is redacted on LinkedIn.

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Now let's search for Z security, and now we'll be able to find the company LinkedIn page.

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I'm going to click on it.

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And under people you'll see the people who work at that company.

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So let's scroll down and we can see the profile pictures, names and description.

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So if we scroll down a little bit we can see here that there is a LinkedIn member who works as a security

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as an ethical hacker.

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And the problem is that you cannot view the profile because even if you clicked on it, nothing will

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happen.

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So let me scroll down.

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Here.

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We can see that there is a person who works at Z security as a cyber security consultant, and he has

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a profile picture.

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So let's take this as an example.

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So what I can do is to copy the description and then go to Google and say site LinkedIn.com, because

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we want to search in LinkedIn and then add the description within two quotation marks.

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And then I'm going to hit enter.

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And then we'll get a search results.

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Let me click on it.

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And we can see that this is the person that we are looking for.

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He has the exact same profile picture, and he also works as a cyber security consultant at the security.

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Now let me show you another example.

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Here we have another person who works at Z security as cyber security or in cyber security.

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I'm going to copy this and come back and change the description.

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And we can only see that there is one search result, which is this one.

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And this is the person's name.

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Now there are some people like this one who doesn't have a profile picture or a name or a description.

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In this case, you will not be able to find their name because we don't have any clue or any information

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that could lead us to this profile.

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Now let's recap what we have learned.

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If you are searching for a person on LinkedIn, then use the filters to narrow down your search.

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You can add the company of the person where he's working the university, the city, country, etc.

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these are all information that will help you to narrow down your search.

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Next, you want to analyze the target profile, read their biography, their names, display names,

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the posts, comments, etc. which will give you some insights about the count.

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And it's also very important to save the profile just in case they have changed any information on their

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profiles.

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And if you were able to find any post or comment and you would like to extract the timestamp, then

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you can convert the post ID to binary and then convert the first 42 numbers to decimal, and then convert

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this number to a readable time and date using one of the online Unix converter.

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And lastly, if you are trying to scrape or find the people who works at a certain company, then you

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can use search engines operators to find any redacted names.