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Scrapfly ranks five open-source LinkedIn scrapers on GitHub by auth model and ban risk

Scrapfly published a blog post evaluating five open-source LinkedIn scraping repositories on GitHub, ranking them by authentication approach, maintenance status, and real-world blocking risk as of August 2026.

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Why it matters

LinkedIn is one of the most aggressively protected platforms for scraping, making tool selection critical for practitioners. This roundup provides a rare, dated snapshot of which open-source scrapers still work and which carry high ban risk, helping developers avoid wasted effort on abandoned or easily detected tools.

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Topics: Scrapfly, LinkedIn, GitHub, linkedin-scraping, open-source, github, anti-bot, social-media-scraping