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Aman Kumar Singh
Software Engineer Intern
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Building a LinkedIn Scraper (and Turning It Into an MCP Integration)

· 6 min read
Aman Kumar Singh
Software Engineer Intern
TL;DR:

We recently built a LinkedIn scraping tool that can extract profiles, company data, and connections without getting flagged.
Sounds simple, right? Well, three weeks and countless "unusual activity detected" warnings later, We learned that scraping LinkedIn is less about parsing HTML and more about outsmarting their anti-bot systems.

Full source code: github.com/vertexcover-io/linkedin-spider

Building a LinkedIn Scraper (and Turning It Into an MCP Integration)

· 6 min read
Aman Kumar Singh
Software Engineer Intern
TL;DR:

We recently built a LinkedIn scraping tool that can extract profiles, company data, and connections without getting flagged.
Sounds simple, right? Well, three weeks and countless "unusual activity detected" warnings later, We learned that scraping LinkedIn is less about parsing HTML and more about outsmarting their anti-bot systems.

Full source code: github.com/vertexcover-io/linkedin-spider