15 November 2021 / proxycurl

Does Proxycurl scrape a LinkedIn profile for posts?

Steven Goh

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Yes, we do for people profiles, with caveats.

The articles and activities values in our Person Profile Endpoint describe a profile's post activities.

However, given that we scrape public LinkedIn profiles, our API can only scrape what is present on the public profile: the most recent (ten) posts.

For company profiles, posts are returned under the updates key through our Company Profile Endpoint.

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