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KPCKevin Powell - Community
•Created by DHM on 4/9/2025 in #help
Looking for dev for personal project
Yep you're correct, web scraping Linkedin does violate TOS. However:
1. Almost every website has a policy against web scraping. Look at Tinder, Glassdoor, Discord, etc policies. Even public library website policies have a clause about it. No one likes a web scraper mining data
2. There are already many production web scrapers who do this anyways. How do you think job board aggregators get jobs?
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KPCKevin Powell - Community
•Created by DHM on 4/9/2025 in #help
Looking for dev for personal project
@ἔρως @vince It's a project to create something useful to add distributed systems to a resume, the same way that some people enter hackathons to learn while others enter hackathons to win. Neither me nor my friend are making money off this. There's no 'mandatory hours', no 'product delivery dates', etc. You can do as much as you want when you want as long as it's an interesting project to you. I'm just stating in the post what the project needs because there's no point in having people join who don't want to use Python when we already have Python code for example.
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