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These anti-scraping corporate activists need to get with the times and allow access to their data, legitimately, through an API. Third parties will scrape and sell the data regardless, so why not just cut them out and even charge for individuals to legitimately use the API. API keys could be tied to an individual and at least LinkedIn would know who was conducting what action.

Make it easier to get the data through an API than having to scrape it.



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