Ask HN: Any advice for scraping LinkedIn at 10k profiles a day?

#1

Post by ptrenko » Sat, Dec 07, 2019, 10:19 PM UTC

I'm looking to scrape about 10K profiles a day for a project I'm working on.

Don't need fake accounts or anything. Just the stuff publicly accessible when not logged in.

Does anybody have experience with this? How many proxies? Residential/Datacenter? Any tips?

Re: Ask HN: Any advice for scraping LinkedIn at 10k profiles a day?

#2

Post by DamonHD » Sat, Dec 07, 2019, 10:46 PM UTC

Why don't you ask LI? They may have tools.

If you don't have their permssion then you are likely running up against various 'compuster misuse' and 'privacy' laws, never mind being rude by eating their resources.

Re: Ask HN: Any advice for scraping LinkedIn at 10k profiles a day?

#3

Post by mihemihe » Sat, Dec 07, 2019, 11:26 PM UTC

You are going to be blocked if you try to do that wihout going through any officialy supported, and probably paid, API

Re: Ask HN: Any advice for scraping LinkedIn at 10k profiles a day?

#4

Post by ptrenko » Sat, Dec 07, 2019, 11:58 PM UTC

DamonHD wrote: post #2

Why don't you ask LI? They may have tools. If you don't have their permssion then you are likely running up against various 'compuster misuse' and 'privacy' laws, never mind being rude by eating their resources.

Look up HiQ vs Linkedin

Re: Ask HN: Any advice for scraping LinkedIn at 10k profiles a day?

#5

Post by ksputana » Mon, Dec 16, 2019, 3:13 AM UTC

so far I've only been able to do something similar with proxycrawl, any other thing I tried, even with proxies I got blocked in less than 5 minutes...