Wrong profile name when scraping own profile and market as "Open to job opportunities"

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LinkedIn Scraper (currently working 2020)

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Wrong profile name when scraping own profile and market as "Open to job opportunities" #79

Open Aditya94A opened 4 years ago

Aditya94A commented 4 years ago

Sometimes I get the following, when the person is open to recruiters:

leonardiwagner commented 4 years ago

Do you have to be a recruiter and are you using a recruiter account to see that info?

I don't have a recruiter account to reproduce and solve that error, please Ctrl + S the page that you are trying to scrap and send the HTML file to my email: leonardiwagner at gmail .com

EDIT: if it's not recruiter account, send me the HTML file anyways!

ps: sorry for my late response, I added more volunteer people to handle faster the issues

Aditya94A commented 4 years ago

Ahh, I think I found an exception. This was happening when it was my own profile (which I had set to "open to recruiters")

You can reproduce it, by going into your linkedin job settings and setting "open to recruiters" as true. Then you'll get the same response for your own profile.

Maybe the solution would be to add a gotcha in the docs, instead? This is a minor edge case, can be ignored as well (who would want to scrape their own profile?)