Is web scraping LinkedIn legal?

Is it possible to web scrape LinkedIn?

I have a problem: I want to scrape a given profile from LinkedIn.

The problem is that if I put the full URL into a web browser, the profile is returned immediately, without waiting for any further input. Is it possible to do this via Selenium?
Thanks for your help! As @Hristo said, you need to add a delay to your webscrape. But you can use Javascript's window.setTimeout(), which makes your scrape wait a specified amount of time before doing anything.

Is web scraping LinkedIn legal?

It is clear that some firms and companies will be offering their own web scrapers for LinkedIn in the future.

Many of these firms are already established, having sold their services to a myriad of clientele over time.

LinkedIn is a popular social networking site, with a huge array of valuable information stored on it. The website is a business tool and an integral part of the marketing and sales cycle, providing a wealth of information for those looking for work.

This post will take a look at whether or not web scraping (web spidering) is actually legal. There are some very good points made in this article on 'The future of web scraping'.

The purpose of this post is to look at whether or not web scraping can be classed as a legal issue. A quick look at the 'UK' definition of 'Scrape' from Google's 'Ngram Viewer' will show us that many search terms are down a long way in popularity (which goes some way to explain why this subject is so under-rated). Scraping is not entirely legal though:

The right to create a web spider, and to crawl pages, is regulated by the Data Protection Act 1998. The European Directive 2002/58 defines a web spider as an application that uses a publicly accessible web server to collect information from the HTML pages on that server in order to build up a collection of structured data about the web server. For example, a web spider may be an application that searches for relevant data one or more public web servers. Some organisations make use of web spiders. Many software packages do, in fact, already use web spiders, albeit indirectly, by submitting queries to databases such as those available from Microsoft. The Data Protection Act 1998 provides that a person who, without any reasonable excuse, uses a computer program, equipment or an agency to scrape information held on a computer system has to notify the organisation that stores that information. It will then be necessary to remove the scraped information. (Source)

There are obviously more ways than one in which a company could legally scrap information, but the simple definition above covers the vast majority. Scraping does offer some clear benefits over just going through the site manually. This article explores the benefits of this service, and also takes a look at it from a legal perspective.

How do I scrape a LinkedIn profile in Python?

I've started to look into the LinkedIn API, and I need to create a web service in Python that pulls the info out of one of a user's linkedin profiles.

How do I scrape the links from that info? What is the best method to get the data? You can access linkedin via python-social-auth and do a simple request for a person's profile. The code below is based on what I have now, and will hopefully give you a good start. (This example only returns user info, not all of the data you are looking for).
#!strategy.oauth2.AccessToken(requestfields=, requesturl=')
Res = accesstoken. Please click next."
Sys.exit(0) for item in res: print item. print ".
If 'picture' in res: print '. Profile picture information retrieved.' sys.