100 Country Codes On LinkedIn

If you log out of LinkedIn and look at its home page, you will find some invaluable information, including a list of 100 countries that have their own URL’s. The exception is the US profiles that have the www beginning along with many smaller countries. For your convenience and at the request from my listeners today, here is a list of the codes:

Country	Code
Afghanistan	af
Albania	al
Algeria	dz
Argentina	ar
Australia	au
Austria	at
Bahrain	bh
Bangladesh	bd
Belgium	be
Bolivia	bo
Bosnia and Herzegovina	ba
Brazil	br
Bulgaria	bg
Canada	ca
Chile	cl
China	cn
Colombia	co
Costa Rica	cr
Croatia	hr
Cyprus	cy
Czech Republic	cz
Denmark	dk
Dominican Republic	do
Ecuador	ec
Egypt	eg
El Salvador	sv
Estonia	ee
Finland	fi
France	fr
Germany	de
Ghana	gh
Greece	gr
Guatemala	gt
Hong Kong	hk
Hungary	hu
Iceland	is
India	in
Indonesia	id
Iran	ir
Ireland	ie
Israel	il
Italy	it
Jamaica	jm
Japan	jp
Jordan	jo
Kazakhstan	kz
Kenya	ke
Korea	kr
Kuwait	kw
Latvia	lv
Lebanon	lb
Lithuania	lt
Luxembourg	lu
Macedonia	mk
Malaysia	my
Malta	mt
Mauritius	mu
Mexico	mx
Montenegro	me
Morocco	ma
Nepal	np
Netherlands	nl
New Zealand	nz
Nigeria	ng
Norway	no
Oman	om
Pakistan	pk
Panama	pa
Peru	pe
Philippines	ph
Poland	pl
Portugal	pt
Puerto Rico	pr
Qatar	qa
Romania	ro
Russian Federation	ru
Saudi Arabia	sa
Serbia	rs
Singapore	sg
Slovak Republic	sk
Slovenia	si
South Africa	za
Spain	es
Sri Lanka	lk
Sweden	se
Switzerland	ch
Taiwan	tw
Tanzania	tz
Thailand	th
Trinidad and Tobago	tt
Tunisia	tn
Turkey	tr
Uganda	ug
Ukraine	ua
United Arab Emirates	ae
United Kingdom	uk
United States	www
Uruguay	uy
Venezuela	ve
Vietnam	vn

How to Source on Github

Some professional sites with software developer population that charge recruiters arm and leg to access the user data, like stackoverflow, are quite hard to search. It’s possible, but it’s not easy. Github is a place where excellent developers hang out, that provides its own clean ways to search for its content – and its users:

If you are not a fan of search operators, you can simply do this:

Start searching for users…

Select a programming language…

Add a couple of clever keywords… (not necessarily these, but this example may give you some keyword ideas) and see results like this:

I never said that we should be emailing people as soon as we get hold of lists like this. More research and pre-qualification is always a good idea. But that’s quite a bit of sourced data in one quick shot!

X-raying on Google is also possible but the results are a little harder to browse. Try this:

site:github.com “joined on” “San Francisco” “gmail.com”

X-raying on Bing, however, will not find a single thing:

site:github.com “joined on” “San Francisco” “gmail.com”;

guess, why.

I will be explaining this type of people sourcing techniques in-depth at the upcoming webinar on how to source on professional sites, coming up on Tuesday, January 22nd. As usual, the slides, a video-recording, and one month of unlimited support will be provided for all who sign up.

Thanks to Booleanstring to sharing this...

Thanks

Santosh