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LinkedIn Enrichment: Finding Contacts and Accuracy of Scraped Results

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hey hey, I’m running a find contacts at linkedin enrichment to find CEo’s founders bla bla but it doesn’t look like it’s returning the right results. I remember once asking about the linkedin scraping for content and was told that it’s not always accurate, I’m guessing it’s the same issue here. Can I get a rough idea of what the hit rate is for the linkedin scraper? and are there any plans/ways for it to improve in the future?

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    xavier c.
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    https://app.clay.com/workspaces/23200/tables/t_5y0kqd6aqrdW/views/gv_8AVF188jDxI8 Check row 15. It says no profile found but the CEO/president is on linkedin, his name is Patrick Cunningham

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    Hey Xavier! taking a look

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    This is likely because our LinkedIn integrations don't use your active session or cookies to find data on LinkedIn. The tradeoff is that it could miss some information here and there, especially if there are privacy restrictions in their profiles, meaning that you need to be logged into an account to see all the data.The team is continuously checking for options to increase that coverage though

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    xavier c.
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    gotcha thank you Arturo O.!