Getting flagged by LinkedIn even when scraping very few profiles (<10 per day)

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Hi everyone,
I slightly customised the LinkedIn Job and Company scraper to be able to pull in a few more info and I manually trigger the playbook with a right click to pull in company details and some job posts into a Google Sheet.

LinkedIn has blocked my account but I’ve only pulled about 20 company info and a dozen jobs. I’ve read post where folks on here have automated pulling in hundreds if not thousands of rows. What I am missing here please ?

Sorry if this is addressed somewhere already, I couldn’t find it.

Thanks!
Seb

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Make sure to add delays in order to help avoid getting banned for scraping.

Here’s more information on scraping LinkedIn:

I hope this helps!

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Hi Jess thanks.

Inread this post but it doesn’t explain much and lidtening to the video it only says no to scrap more than a couple hundreds a day which I’m way below!

But I’ll try as you say adding delays. How much delays I should add and what does it do exactly ?

Thanks,
Seb

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It’s always best practices to use delays when scraping as it helps avoid being detected as a bot from the website you are scraping from.

Just add one of like 3 seconds to your scraper action in the builder.

It means with delays, if you weren’t using delays, this is probably why you’re getting detected after 20 job scrapes and blocked.

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Thanks I’ll try that!

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Welcome to the community Sebastian.

Jess is totally right , custom delays help with allowing the page to load but also with scraping a little slower so you reduce the risk of getting flagged for scraping.

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