Not sure why you need an account. Download it here: https://bigpicture-datasets-public.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.co...
Presumably as lead generation for their main upsell, which is the enriched version of the same data set :)
A raw dump of companies from all over the world by LinkedIn handle
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Re: A raw dump of companies from all over the world by LinkedIn handle
#82It's funny how OP does not address where this data comes from even though it's obviously from LinkedIn. I see many people in the comments asking questions so I will add my two cents as someone who is currently employed by LinkedIn and has an interest in web scraping. This dataset was taken from scraping the company pages from LinkedIn. A company has to pay to have this page, so this certainly does not include all com…
I have lots of LinkedIn pages for various companies (alive and dead). I’ve never had to pay: while there’s limits on page creation for free accounts (which appear to be prevent abuse) there’s no direct payment required to create a company page.
I’m not sure if you’re accidentally leaking a new strategy that LinkedIn are about to launch or if you’re mistaken but given you’re claiming to work for LinkedIn, probably worth correcting your comment either way.
Re: A raw dump of companies from all over the world by LinkedIn handle
#83A simple Wikidata query can return same type of information in case you prefer open data: https://w.wiki/6ify
Re: A raw dump of companies from all over the world by LinkedIn handle
#84It's funny how OP does not address where this data comes from even though it's obviously from LinkedIn. I see many people in the comments asking questions so I will add my two cents as someone who is currently employed by LinkedIn and has an interest in web scraping. This dataset was taken from scraping the company pages from LinkedIn. A company has to pay to have this page, so this certainly does not include all com…
I have lots of LinkedIn pages for various companies (alive and dead). I’ve never had to pay: while there’s limits on page creation for free accounts (which appear to be prevent abuse) there’s no direct payment required to create a company page. I’m not sure if you’re accidentally leaking a new strategy that LinkedIn are about to launch or if you’re mistaken but given you’re claiming to work for LinkedIn, probably wor…
Definitely not the latter. I am referring to the former point.
Re: A raw dump of companies from all over the world by LinkedIn handle
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is a gray area (in the US) in the sense that there is no clear consensus about it in the courts. There have been court rulings in both directions.
What rulings have been against it? You don’t need consensus to allow something, you need consensus to be against something, otherwise it’s allowed. This “scraping is Grey” sounds like FUD to me. Legally, you can scrape anything publicly available as long as you damage the server. You understand that google is just a giant web scraper right? And all the other search engines spidering the web. Do you think they are ris…
There does seem to be some distinction if you log into and scrape:
"Only three claims remained for the final order - the violation of the CAN-SPAM Act, violation of the CFAA and California Penal Code.
The district court then granted summary judgment to Facebook on all three of the remaining Facebook claims. The district court awarded statutory damages of $3,031,350"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook,_Inc._v._Power_Ventur....
Re: A raw dump of companies from all over the world by LinkedIn handle
#86Not sure why you need an account. Download it here: https://bigpicture-datasets-public.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.co...
There's a comment below saying it's a 2.64GB CSV file, while gzip shows the uncompressed size of this one to be 1.97GB.
Re: A raw dump of companies from all over the world by LinkedIn handle
#87sounds fun until I have to make an account. then noep. too lazy.
Re: A raw dump of companies from all over the world by LinkedIn handle
#88It's funny how OP does not address where this data comes from even though it's obviously from LinkedIn. I see many people in the comments asking questions so I will add my two cents as someone who is currently employed by LinkedIn and has an interest in web scraping. This dataset was taken from scraping the company pages from LinkedIn. A company has to pay to have this page, so this certainly does not include all com…
> and is not being monetized
It seems to have a paid version with more data: https://docs.bigpicture.io/docs/free-datasets/companies/#fie...
(just the fact, I don't have an opinion)
Re: A raw dump of companies from all over the world by LinkedIn handle
#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have lots of LinkedIn pages for various companies (alive and dead). I’ve never had to pay: while there’s limits on page creation for free accounts (which appear to be prevent abuse) there’s no direct payment required to create a company page. I’m not sure if you’re accidentally leaking a new strategy that LinkedIn are about to launch or if you’re mistaken but given you’re claiming to work for LinkedIn, probably wor…
Definitely not the latter. I am referring to the former point.
The limit only applies if you’ve created… I can’t remember the number exactly and it’s not listed anywhere but I recall hitting a limit around 5 pages.
You can see that it’s free to make a page here — the only requirement is a free account: https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a543852/create...
Re: A raw dump of companies from all over the world by LinkedIn handle
#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
Definitely not the latter. I am referring to the former point.
The limit only applies if you’ve created… I can’t remember the number exactly and it’s not listed anywhere but I recall hitting a limit around 5 pages. You can see that it’s free to make a page here — the only requirement is a free account: https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a543852/create...
TIL