Gmail to LinkedIn Connector (Beta 0.1) 🚀

A Chrome Extension that helps you quickly find LinkedIn profiles for people in your Gmail threads.

Safe, Private, and Open Source.

✨ Features

• Toolbar Integration: Lives in your browser toolbar, no intrusive sidebars.
• Smart Badges: Shows a red notification badge (e.g., "2") when email participants are found.
• Profile Pictures: Extracts and displays Gmail avatars for quick identification.
• Connection Status: Manually check if you are 1st, 2nd, or 3rd degree connections (safe, no auto-scraping).
• Smart Filtering: Automatically ignores non-human senders like "Google", "Team", "No-Reply".

📥 Installation

1. Clone or download this repository.
2. Open Chrome and go to chrome://extensions.
3. Enable Developer mode (top right).
4. Click Load unpacked.
5. Select the gmail-linkedin-extension folder.

🛠️ Development

Project Structure

• manifest.json: V3 Manifest.
• src/content/gmail.js: Scans the DOM for participants and "Check Status" logic.
• src/background/service_worker.js: Handles badge updates and cross-origin stats checks.
• src/popup: The UI for the profile list.

🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions! Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for details on how to get started.

🗺️ Roadmap / Help Wanted

Looking for a place to start? We need help with:

• Dark Mode: Add a dark theme to the popup.
• Outlook Support: Adapt the content script to work on outlook.live.com.
• Caching: Cache LinkedIn status checks in chrome.storage.local to reduce API calls.
• Better Parsing: Improve name extraction for "Reply" threads or complex signatures.

⚠️ Disclaimer

This project is for educational purposes. It is not affiliated with LinkedIn or Google. It does not use private APIs or scrape data automatically.

License

MIT