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Infinite scroll for getting group members in Linkedin

Recently i was challenged with getting Linkedin group memebers info. The challenge made me to seek some ways to

Here is a video where I try to catch all Linkedin group members through endless scroll**, I having to be a member of the group.
The real speed is ~1 person/second though.

Sometimes you need to click on the “Scroll more results” button or even just hover the mouse over this button.

Automate scroll

**The post on how to start infinite scroll in the browser… But this JS code from the post does not help to replenish the page… Only when there is a focus on the browser tab/page, the script continues loading data again.

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Development

Service for getting real SMS on virtual online numbers + API

With 365SMS service you can receive SMS to a virtual number and verify your accounts on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Amazon, Airbnb, etc.

  • Buying virtual numbers and receiving SMS in automatic mode.
  • A virtual phone number is issued for 20 minutes. During this time, you can receive an unlimited number of SMS absolutely free.
  • You pay only for the received SMS, prices are as low as 0.3 EUR per number. If the number did not accept SMS, the money will be returned to the balance.
  • Large selection of services (incl. Linkedin) and countries for SMS activation.
  • Convenient API for comfortable work with external software.
  • User-friendly interface. Search by country and service makes it easy to buy a virtual phone number.
  • Dicounts for numbers in bulk.

Note

Since the virtual number is not in the country it represents, so a created 3d party account might be blocked. Therefore it’s better to:

1. Use mobile proxies that match the geolocation of the region of the purchased virtual number;
2. Use a mobile user agent.

Often the problem is not in the number, but in the wrong registration method.

Free numbers

Another vistual number SMS service, incl. free numbers.

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Development

Linkedin scrape guide lines

The LinkedIn crawl success rate is low; one request that a bot makes might require several retries to be successful. So, here we share the crucial Linkedin scraping guide lines.

  1. Rate limit
    Limit the crawling rate for LinkedIn. The acceptable approximate frequency is: 1 request every second, 60 requests per minute.
  2. Public pages only
    LinkedIn allows for bots only public pages; pages that are private cannot be crawled.
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Development

JAVA library to scrape Linkedin & its data affiliates

In this post we want to share with you a new useful JAVA library that helps to crawl and scrape Linkedin companies. Get business directories scraped!

If you are considering the Linkedin data scrape legal issues, please refer to the following post: Linkedin lost in court to data analytic company that scrapes Linkedin’s public profiles info
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Development

Python LinkedIn downloader

We’ve done the Linkedin scraper that downloades the free study courses. They include text data, exercise files and 720HD videos. The code does not represent the pure Linkedin scraper, a business directory data extractor. Yet, you might grasp the main thoughts and useful techniques for your Linkedin scraper development.

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Legal

Linkedin lost in court to data analytic company that scrapes Linkedin’s public profiles info

On September 9th, 2019 the UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 1 has affirmed the former district court’s determination that a certain [dataanalytic company is lawful to scrape [perform automated gathering] LinkedIn’s public profiles info. Now the historical event has happened in which a court is protecting a data extractor’s right for mass gathering openly presented business directory information.

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Development SEO and Growth Hacking

A simple LinkedIn Group Submitter

LinkedInLinkedIn API doesn’t allow you to publish into groups if you are not their administrator. That was done in order to eliminate spamming, but if you are a member of several groups of a similar topic and you want to share some interesting information with all of those groups, you have to do it manually group by group and eventually it becomes tedious. In this post I’ll show you a simple way to automate this process in C# using Selenium WebDriver.