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Thanks for open-sourcing it . Curious, how does it get LinkedIn data? From scraping or API call?

• ogou 7mo ago
  Manually. I went to my profile and saved 4 key pages as html. Then Claude converted those to markdown. Took less than 5 minutes. Automating that would have been more trouble than it's worth. The LinkedIn API is fairly useless unless you're in their partner program. Scraping could have gotten my account blocked because ToS violation. That core information rarely changes so it doesn't need to be dynamically imported anyway.
  • himmi-01 7mo ago
    Are you saying that the partner program takes time and not worth integrating ? I was planning to gather data of users via LinkedIn oauth, haven't started it, but happy to hear your experience
    • ogou 7mo ago
      It's more than time. That program requires explicit authorization from them. It's designed for larger corporate integrations, not developer experiments. I seriously I doubt I would get approved even if I went through all the paperwork. It's not just a matter of just signing up for an API key. As for your plan, gathering user data is probably the main thing they want to prevent.