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dmart89 OP t1_j9olf7e wrote

Reply to comment by step21 in [D] Python library to collect structured datasets across the internet by dmart89

There was a court ruling a year or two ago that concluded that scraping public linkedin profiles is legal :) LN obviously still doesn't want you to scrape their data, so building scrapers for it is extra tedious because you need to navigate their blocking.

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KPTN25 t1_j9qy2xi wrote

> court ruling a year or two ago that concluded that scraping public linkedin profiles is legal

Forgot about this. I may be dating myself with problems of the past.

Still imagine they're doing their best to make it really hard to do, though.

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