internet research
Data scraping from LinkedIn—is it okay to publicize it?
<p>I am doing a project using data from LinkedIn. Basically, I am extracting the &quot;workplace&quot; field from people that went to my university. I was told by someone in the research group that LinkedIn prohibits people to publicize any data. Is that true?</p>

<h2>You can’t do this</h2>
<p>LinkedIn <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/legal/user-agreement#dos" rel="nofollow noreferrer">ToS</a> prohibit:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>b. Develop, support or use software, devices, scripts, robots or any other means or processes (including crawlers, browser plugins and add-ons or any other technology) to scrape the Services or otherwise copy profiles and other data from the Services;</p>
<p>c. Override any security feature or bypass or circumvent any access controls or use limits of the Service (such as caps on keyword searches or profile views);</p>
<p>d. Copy, use, disclose or distribute any information obtained from the Services, whether directly or through third parties (such as search engines), without the consent of LinkedIn;</p>
<p>e. Disclose information that you do not have the consent to disclose (such as confidential information of others (including your employer));</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Since you must have an account to do what you propose, you agreed by contract not to do it.</p>
