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		Ask HN: How do you scrape Linkedin? Is it legal now after the recent ruling?
		7 points by swe_eats_world on Aug 30, 2017 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 1 comment
		As far as I can see, Linkedin still seems to block all scraping. It doesn't seem to be possible to scrape public profiles on linkedin. Did I misinterpret the ruling?

jasonjs on Sept 3, 2017 [–]

It may be legal for you to do so (for now), but it doesn't mean that they are obligated to make it easy.

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