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How does the scraper work? e.g. LinkedIn aggressively blocks scraping and you'd need to be logged in to see most things you'd care about. How do you handle that?

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We don't scrape LinkedIn ourselves, instead work with large data providers who do live scraping.

Have a waterfall approach in case one source doesn't have the requested information!

You should make Slashy a chrome extension for BrowserOS (https://github.com/browseros-ai/BrowserOS), then it can read/extract Linkedin using user credentials :)

Hmm we've been considering a chrome extension

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who is it? give them a plug, seems like it works well.

Unfortunately have an NDA with them so can't disclose (most of our providers are still in stealth)

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