Handling LinkedIn Public Profiles that exist but cannot be scraped

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Hey guys, I'm the founder of Proxycurl, an API to scrape Linkedin profile on-demand. One of the problems that our users encounter is an error when they try to scrape a profile is visible when you log into linkedin, but does not have a public profile (due to privacy settings).

We launched an update to rectify this issue for our users and you can read about what we did in the blog post.

Let me know if you guys have any questions about Linkedin scraping at bulk :)

Maybe respect the privacy settings a user has set up?

That's what the update is for. To inform the API user that it cannot be crawled by returning 404.

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