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Reverse Engineering with Joyce Lin - JSJ 577

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How to Scrape a Site Like LinkedIn

If I wanted to scrape a site like LinkedIn, LinkedIn is going to be very protective about that data. They'll probably have endpoints that allow you to create new posts or push things to their website. But when it comes to taking pulling information off of their platform, they might actively choose not to offer those endpoints. And so not only are they like, you know, the documentation might not be up to par, but like they're actively choosing not to offer that functionality through their public API.

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