Can LinkedIn ban you for scraping?
This was the day after Thanksgiving at the beginning of this year, which was the worst holiday season ever on eHarmony.
We were working like crazy in the first couple of weeks back to try to bring as many new customers to our webform and other tools as possible, but we had a lot of problems with it. There were a lot of clicks on the form and nothing was coming through.
Then a friend sent me this link and I clicked on it. Sure enough, she had a problem when she signed up on eHarmony. She did not mention scraping to me, but in her e-mail correspondence with them, they stated that Scraping was the same thing as doing a search engine, meaning they would ban you.
So, I wanted to try to figure out how to do a scrape or search in plain English because I really just wanted people to know how NOT safe it is to use any of these dating sites. So this is just to alert someone and if they do not hear from you within a week about your scrape, you can take your business elsewhere. You do not have to use a script. You just need to use something that can run a query on a web server. I personally used CURL in a Perl script, but here is a PHP version I made just in case someone is having a different issue with their hosting and doesn't want to install perl:
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