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

2 points by ptrenko 6y ago ↗ HN

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?

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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.

ptrenko 6y ago ↗

Look up HiQ vs Linkedin

mihemihe 6y ago ↗

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

ksputana 6y ago ↗

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...