Does clay uses my cookie session to scrape linkedin profiles ?

No

Thank you !

We don’t but you can use phantom buster to do that and send the data to Clay

I mean, using my cookie session puts my account at risk, isn’t it ?

we want to avoid using our own session, right

I know PhantomBuster, but i’m afraid to use it cause i don’t wanna get banned. What do you recommend

thanks Kareem Amin and Anjali D. for your help guys

recommend starting with using Clay’s default searches (for safe scraping which also typically gives you a large breadth of results)!

thanks. with clay can I scrape these 2 sections of a linkedin profile?

what you have right after the name (highlighted) and the about section

yes!

cool. but what do you mean saying using my cookie session results in higher accuracy ?

If you run the ‘Enrich Person from LinkedIn Profile’ enrichment you’ll get both these fields of information. One nested within ‘Headline’ and the other within ‘Summary’

getting both costs 1 credit per profile ?

you won’t have access to private profiles

yes the Enrich Person costs 1 credit per profile (i.e. row it is run on) but you also get a ton of other information from the individual’s LinkedIn profile (education, experiences, awards etc.)

ok i get it. thanks. I’m just trying to figure out - is phantom buster to be feared ?

ah and if i bring my API key for GPT, i don’t consume credits as i directly pay open ai ?

can’t provide any guarantees for Phantom Buster but I would do some more digging on them externally since LinkedIn generally has restrictions/requirements when it comes to scraping

that’s right! you can choose to use your own API key and use no clay credits

i’d stay away for now. I’ll use clay, thanks Anjali

Anytime:)

if it can’t enrich the profile cause it’s prive it’ll cost a credit anyway isn’t it ?

Thanks Arturo !