At what point will Linkedin shut you down?
It seems like there's a lot of apps out there that are in some way violating the LinkedIn TOS by scraping data off of their website either anonymously in the background or on the frontend off of chrome extensions by users.
Most apps are in the recruiting space as well. I have an idea in this space as well that I would love to build. Unfortunately it involves using data on Linkedin in a chrome extension but I would feel discouraged by the idea of spending a month to build something to only have it shut down right after.
Does anyone have any experience on this?
There was a fair bit of news/discussion when LinkedIn cut back on Hunter.io in 2017.
While there is real platform risk worth being skeptical of, there are lots of LinkedIn scrapers out there (https://blog.woodpecker.co/prospecting/prospect-list-building-tools/) that have survived.
Now the other question is whether this market is too crowded...
Good luck.
There're no hard rules, but most chrome extensions that I've used such as Octopus (https://octopuscrm.io/) stop sending/scraping after 30 minutes of activity and don't do more than 1 action every 20 seconds. Basically mimicking human behaviour. Never got banned or a warning using that.
With other tools, I've gotten a warning very quickly. So the 30 minutes : 20 second rule is probably a good guideline.
A hack around using LinkedIn search is to use Google with search parameters such as 'site:linkedin.com/in/' I've written a bit more about that here: https://www.letsgrow.io/growthhacks/1