Issues with LinkedIn's Scraping Crackdown Affecting Profile Enrichment | Clay

Issues with LinkedIn's Scraping Crackdown Affecting Profile Enrichment

Are you guys experiencing issues related to LinkedIn's recent scraping crackdown? I just tried to enrich on 406 confirmed LinkedIn profiles and it only matched 164.

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We don't have specific information about recent LinkedIn scraping issues affecting our enrichment process. However, enrichment results can vary based on several factors. To improve your experience, consider using our "Enrich Person from Profile" feature, which can provide more detailed information about a person's current position and tenure. Additionally, our system uses multiple sources for data enrichment, not just LinkedIn, which can help in cases where LinkedIn data might be limited. Can you provide more details about when you noticed this issue and if you've seen any patterns in the profiles that weren't successfully enriched?
Source: Find & Enrich Person from Google Search with Companies, People, Jobs
Tyler R.
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this was using the "enrich person from profile" function
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The lower match rate you're experiencing could be due to several factors, not necessarily related to a specific LinkedIn crackdown. Our "Enrich Person from Profile" function relies on data providers that don't use active sessions or cookies to scrape LinkedIn data live. This means some LinkedIn fields might not be visible, affecting the enrichment process. The enrichment process can be time-intensive, especially for data older than 45 days, as it requires live retrieval from social profiles. This could result in varying success rates. To potentially improve results, you could try: 1. Ensuring the LinkedIn URLs are correct and up-to-date. 2. Providing additional information like full names or company domains, if possible. If you continue to experience issues, you may want to request human assistance for a more detailed investigation.
Source: Enrich Person from Profile with Companies, People, Jobs
Tyler R.
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I'll wait for teammate
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Hey Tyler, thanks for reaching out. Interesting, would love to take a closer look at this experience in particular. Do you mind sending the link (url) to the table so we can take a look?
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Tyler R.
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sent via dm
Owen C.
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Awesome, thanks for sharing that. Taking a look at this now.
Owen C.
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Hey Tyler, it looks like the input that was being used here was not the LinkedIn URL column where most of these URL's are living. Just re-ran this after switching the input and got almost all of those 240 profiles. Check this out and let me know what you think. :)
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Tyler R.
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lol
Tyler R.
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that's my bad. did not even realize I exported both fields.
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Ah no worries at all, let me know if you have any other questions or concerns. :)
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Thank you so much for sharing your feedback Tyler R.!