1. Scrape Linkedin Profile
2. Linkedin Web Scraping Lawsuit
3. Linkedin Web Scraping
4. Linkedin Scraping Case

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In March 2020, LinkedIn filed a petition for a writ of certiorari to Supreme Courts to challenge 9th circuit decision which says that HiQ scraping LinkedIn member profiles without LinkedIn’s permission did not make any violation against federal hacking laws. LinkedIn put forth several arguments as to why the Court should grant its petition.

hiQ Labs, Inc. v. LinkedIn Corp, 938 F.3d 985 (9th Cir. 2019), was a United States Ninth Circuit case about web scraping. The 9th Circuit affirmed the district court's preliminary injunction, preventing LinkedIn from denying the plaintiff, hiQ Labs, from accessing LinkedIn's publicly available LinkedIn member profiles. hiQ is a small data analytics company that used automated bots to scrape information from public LinkedIn profiles.

The court ruled for hiQ and the right to do web scraping.^[1][2][3]

Background[edit]

LinkedIn served hiQ with a cease-and-desist, demanding that hiQ cease its activity of accessing and copying data from LinkedIn's server. hiQ filed suit against LinkedIn, seeking both injunctive relief under California law and a declaratory judgment to prevent LinkedIn from lawfully invoking the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), California Penal Code § 502(c), or the common law of trespass against hiQ.

District Court[edit]

Ninth Circuit[edit]

The Ninth Circuit affirmed the district court's award of a preliminary injunction in hiQ's favor, finding that 'hiQ established a likelihood of irreparable harm because the survival of its business was threatened.'^[4]

The Ninth Circuit held that there was no abuse of discretion by the district court where the court had found that even if some LinkedIn users retained their privacy despite their public status, as they were not scraped, such privacy interests did not outweigh hiQ's interest in maintaining its business.

In balancing the hardships, the Ninth Circuit determined it weighed in favor of hiQ. Further, the Ninth Circuit noted that hiQ posed serious concerns with regards to '(1) the merits of its claim for tortious interference with contract, alleging that LinkedIn intentionally interfered with its contracts with third parties, and (2) the merits of LinkedIn’s legitimate business purpose defense.'^[4]

Additionally, there was a serious contention as to whether the CFAA preempted hiQ's state law causes of action, specifically because the CFAA prohibits accessing a computer without authorization or exceeding one's authorization to obtain information from a protected computer. LinkedIn asserted that following the receipt of its cease-and-desist letter, hiQ's scraping and further use of its data without authorization fell within the meaning of 'without authorization' within the CFAA.

The Ninth Circuit affirmed the district court's finding that public interest favored the granting of a preliminary injunction. In his concurring opinion, Judge Wallace specified his concern about the appeal of a preliminary injunction initiated in order to obtain an appellate court's take on the merits.

Ultimately, the Ninth Circuit's affirmation of the district court's grant of the preliminary injunction prohibited LinkedIn from denying hiQ access to publicly available data on public LinkedIn users' profiles.

Implications[edit]

The Ninth Circuit's declaration that selectively banning potential competitors from accessing and using data that is publicly available can be considered unfair competition under California law may have large implication for antitrust law.

LinkedIn expressed intent to escalate the case to the Supreme Court.^[5]

Other countries with laws to prevent monopolistic practices or anti-trust laws may also see similar disputes and prospectively judgements hailing commercial use of publicly accessible information. While there is global precedence by virtue of large companies such as Thompson Reuters, Bloomberg or Google effectively using web-scraping or crawling to aggregate information from disparate sources across the web, fundamentally the judgement by Ninth Circuit fortifies the lack of enforceability of browse-wrap agreements over conduct of trade using publicly available information.

References[edit]

1. ^Crocker, Andrew; Fischer, Camille (10 September 2019). 'Victory! Ruling in hiQ v. Linkedin Protects Scraping of Public Data'. Electronic Frontier Foundation.
2. ^Katris, Basileios 'Bill'; Schaul, Robert J. (30 September 2019). 'Data Scraping Survives! (At Least for Now) Key Takeaways from 9th Circuit Ruling on the HIQ vs. Linkedin Case'. The National Law Review.
3. ^Heimes, Rita (20 September 2019). 'Data scraping and the implications of the latest LinkedIn-hiQ court ruling'. iapp.org. International Association of Privacy Professionals.
4. ^ ^ab'hiQ Labs, Inc. v. LinkedIn Corp., No. 17-16783 (9th Cir. 2019)'. Justia. Retrieved 3 June 2020.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
5. ^Davis, Wendy (15 November 2019). 'LinkedIn To Ask Supreme Court To Intervene In Scraping Battle With HiQ'. www.mediapost.com.

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Scrapes user data from Linkedin

Project description

Scrapes Linkedin User Data

Installation

Version 2.0.0 and before is called linkedin_user_scraper and can be installed via pip3 install --user linkedin_user_scraper

Setup

First, you must set your chromedriver location by

Usage

To use it, just create the class.

Scrape Linkedin Profile

Sample Usage

NOTE: The account used to log-in should have it's language set English to make sure everything works as expected.

User Scraping

Company Scraping

Scraping sites where login is required first

1. Run ipython or python
2. In ipython/python, run the following code (you can modify it if you need to specify your driver)

1. Login to Linkedin
2. [OPTIONAL] Logout of Linkedin
3. In the same ipython/python code, run

The reason is that LinkedIn has recently blocked people from viewing certain profiles without having previously signed in. So by setting scrape=False, it doesn't automatically scrape the profile, but Chrome will open the linkedin page anyways. You can login and logout, and the cookie will stay in the browser and it won't affect your profile views. Then when you run person.scrape(), it'll scrape and close the browser. If you want to keep the browser on so you can scrape others, run it as

NOTE: For version >= 2.1.0, scraping can also occur while logged in. Beware that users will be able to see that you viewed their profile.

so it doesn't close.

Scraping sites and login automatically

From verison 2.4.0 on, actions is a part of the library that allows signing into Linkedin first. The email and password can be provided as a variable into the function. If not provided, both will be prompted in terminal.

API

Person

A Person object can be created with the following inputs:

linkedin_url

This is the linkedin url of their profile

name

This is the name of the person

about

This is the small paragraph about the person

experiences

This is the past experiences they have. A list of linkedin_scraper.scraper.Experience

educations

This is the past educations they have. A list of linkedin_scraper.scraper.Education

interests

This is the interests they have. A list of linkedin_scraper.scraper.Interest

accomplishment

This is the accomplishments they have. A list of linkedin_scraper.scraper.Accomplishment

company

This the most recent company or institution they have worked at.

job_title

This the most recent job title they have.

driver

This is the driver from which to scraper the Linkedin profile. A driver using Chrome is created by default. However, if a driver is passed in, that will be used instead.

For example

scrape

When this is True, the scraping happens automatically. To scrape afterwards, that can be run by the scrape() function from the Person object.

scrape(close_on_complete=True)

This is the meat of the code, where execution of this function scrapes the profile. If close_on_complete is True (which it is by default), then the browser will close upon completion. If scraping of other profiles are desired, then you might want to set that to false so you can keep using the same driver.

Company

linkedin_url

This is the linkedin url of their profile

name

This is the name of the company

about_us

The description of the company

website

The website of the company

headquarters

The headquarters location of the company

founded

When the company was founded

company_type

The type of the company

company_size

How many people are employeed at the company

specialties

What the company specializes in

showcase_pages

Pages that the company owns to showcase their products

affiliated_companies

Other companies that are affiliated with this one

driver

This is the driver from which to scraper the Linkedin profile. A driver using Chrome is created by default. However, if a driver is passed in, that will be used instead.

get_employees

Whether to get all the employees of company

For example

scrape(close_on_complete=True)

This is the meat of the code, where execution of this function scrapes the company. If close_on_complete is True (which it is by default), then the browser will close upon completion. If scraping of other companies are desired, then you might want to set that to false so you can keep using the same driver.

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