This is one of the two reasons that I refuse to sign up for LinkedIn. The other one is spam.
Changes to Linkedin API Developer Program
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Re: Changes to Linkedin API Developer Program
#12Does anyone know of any existing (scrubbed for anonymity is fine) datasets of linked-in data? Doesn't have to be particularly recent.
For free or for money? I believe there are web scraping companies that sell monthly dumps of LinkedIn data, but I don't know off-hand how much something like that would cost. It would also likely depend on whether you wanted US-only data or worldwide.
Is this legal to scrape linkedin? What's the legality of obtaining + selling this information?
Re: Changes to Linkedin API Developer Program
#13This is a non constructive comment... they suck ...
Re: Changes to Linkedin API Developer Program
#14Forgive me for the possibly silly question, but does this mean developers won't be able to make LinkedIn a login option for their apps? I'm not sure if and how OAUth and APIs are related.
You will still be able to login with linkedin:
https://developer.linkedin.com/docs/signin-with-linkedin
They just rehashed the website @ developer.linkedin.com
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#15Definitely could see this coming. While it's a shame that linkedin is closing down their API even more, they are just shooting themselves in the head which is great news :) Anyway, the future of professional social networks is destined to be rich ones for each profession/vertical, not the "crappy/high noise for everyone" linkedin model. I know I'm focusing more on crunchbase[0] and angellist[1] APIs for my startup. […
Hey srjk, I write for Gigaom and I'm hoping to talk to some developers about the news. Up for chatting about why you saw this coming awhile ago? if so, drop me a line at carmel.deamicis@gigaom.com
Re: Changes to Linkedin API Developer Program
#16Definitely could see this coming. While it's a shame that linkedin is closing down their API even more, they are just shooting themselves in the head which is great news :) Anyway, the future of professional social networks is destined to be rich ones for each profession/vertical, not the "crappy/high noise for everyone" linkedin model. I know I'm focusing more on crunchbase[0] and angellist[1] APIs for my startup. […
Yup, we saw this coming years ago, and have taken a number of steps to move away from them and leverage other networks more (Github, Twitter, Crunchbase, AngelList, etc.). If you're interested in chatting about this, shoot me a note.
Hey vivek, same thing I said to srjk goes for you as well. I write for Gigaom and I'm hoping to talk to some developers about the news. If you're up for it, would like to hear about why you started migrating awhile ago. I'm at carmel.deamicis@gigaom.com
Re: Changes to Linkedin API Developer Program
#17Does anyone know of any existing (scrubbed for anonymity is fine) datasets of linked-in data? Doesn't have to be particularly recent.
For free or for money? I believe there are web scraping companies that sell monthly dumps of LinkedIn data, but I don't know off-hand how much something like that would cost. It would also likely depend on whether you wanted US-only data or worldwide.
US-only is fine. For money is potentially fine (I've no idea how much something like that would cost), if I knew it was legal - though if there was a legal way to get that data through scraping I'd probably just do that myself :)
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#18It looks like they also wiped out their developer forum which was home to a wide range of questions and answers for specific API uses. It's too bad this is gone, it had some great content.
Re: Changes to Linkedin API Developer Program
#19Definitely could see this coming. While it's a shame that linkedin is closing down their API even more, they are just shooting themselves in the head which is great news :) Anyway, the future of professional social networks is destined to be rich ones for each profession/vertical, not the "crappy/high noise for everyone" linkedin model. I know I'm focusing more on crunchbase[0] and angellist[1] APIs for my startup. […
Don't be so sure about Crunchbase API. It's owned by AOL, which haven't played nicely in the past, too. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6680040
Re: Changes to Linkedin API Developer Program
#20Definitely could see this coming. While it's a shame that linkedin is closing down their API even more, they are just shooting themselves in the head which is great news :) Anyway, the future of professional social networks is destined to be rich ones for each profession/vertical, not the "crappy/high noise for everyone" linkedin model. I know I'm focusing more on crunchbase[0] and angellist[1] APIs for my startup. […
Don't be so sure about Crunchbase API. It's owned by AOL, which haven't played nicely in the past, too. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6680040
Sure, the "halflife of openness" of crunchbase is probably smaller than angellist.
However, at this point crunchbase is pretty open (to the point of giving data dumps) so I'll give them the benefit of doubt for the next 2 years.
Anyway, startups seem to tend towards closing off access to their data as they become the dominant player so it's a question of when not whether.