Seeking LinkedIn Profile Scraping Tips for Lindy Without Third Parties

hey friends, anyone had success scraping LinkedIn profiles inside their Lindy without using a 3rd party? this was something I used all the time inside Relevance and I'd love to recreate the same here (see thread for Relevance example workflow/output)... appreciate y'all!

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Rex H.
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Marvin A.
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hey rex! totally. we now have plenty of LinkedIn actions
Marvin A.
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you can use these for example. What I like to do to get their linkedin url is simply use the Web search action or perplexity to find it → use that for the LI scraping.
Marvin A.
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let me know if this is helpful!
Rex H.
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nice! and this’ll scrape the profile even without having to do all the funky “session cookie ID” stuff as some other services (like some of your partner Apify’s actors)?
Marvin A.
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exactly 🙂 just provide the url and you’re good to go
Rex H.
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that’s awesome… it’s going right into two of my Lindy’s today then!
Rex H.
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Rex H.
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Marvin A. mind helping me figure out what I did wrong here? thanks!
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Rex H.
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tried without the URL as well
Marvin A.
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Hmm can you try the actions I marked in my screenshot? I know for sure they work just fine.
Marvin A.
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Will have the team investigate for this action!
Rex H.
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trying now... is there a way to clear the "Test" chat history?
Rex H.
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Rex H.
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seems like it's getting a little tripped up on the previous attempts being in the context window?
Marvin A.
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top right is the a “Retry” button
Marvin A.
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but tbh I never use the test (we have a major update for it coming since it’s not great rn) → I always go to tasks and start a new one there. Same result but less waiting time 😄
Rex H.
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ahhhh, interesting
Rex H.
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good tip, thank you
Rex H.
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any idea on when it's getting updated? I'm doing a webinar tomorrow and will be showing the Lindy UI to about 500 folks
Marvin A.
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wait what? and you didnt invite me? 😄
Marvin A.
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update won’t be in time for the event unfortunately —so I’d recommend using task view especially for live demos
Rex H.
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ha! all good... I've got a bunch of training happening in May too
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Rex H.
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this is the link, I shared via the group thread last week: https://maven.com/p/fde9b2/the-ultimate-ai-delegation-system-for-busy-i-cs
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Rex H.
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of course feel free to join, brother-man!
Rex H.
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looks like tomorrow is only 200 or so, my bad... I was looking at the previous version 😅
Rex H.
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now I'm just stuck here...
Marvin A.
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did you connect it with the right exit?
Marvin A.
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my guess is you used “after search has started” to continue with the workflow
Marvin A.
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you’d want to use After results available
Rex H.
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good call... not sure why it defaulted to after search started... alright, is there a way to remap without deleting the action and recreating?
Marvin A.
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click the connection + delete
Rex H.
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got it! then remap... that's really handy... Zapier doesn't allow you to do that 😎
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Rex H.
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unfortunately, still stuck here
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Rex H.
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https://chat.lindy.ai/linkedin-scraper-68069fbe86de4cb6947f8d50/tasks?task=6806b7b5952b82b249e46daa
Marvin A.
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yeah the LLM got stuck here. Can you try again? Should work just fine. tested it a couple times today
Rex H.
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kk, lemme give it another shot
Rex H.
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Posts by URL keeps getting stuck... Profile by URL worked fine