{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/yatish27/linkedin-scraper/issues/44","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/yatish27/linkedin-scraper","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/yatish27/linkedin-scraper/issues/44/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/yatish27/linkedin-scraper/issues/44/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/yatish27/linkedin-scraper/issues/44/events","html_url":"https://github.com/yatish27/linkedin-scraper/issues/44","id":68204383,"number":44,"title":"API not working any more","user":{"login":"mlieber","id":450063,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/450063?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/mlieber","html_url":"https://github.com/mlieber","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mlieber/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mlieber/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mlieber/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mlieber/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mlieber/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mlieber/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mlieber/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mlieber/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mlieber/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"assignees":[],"milestone":null,"comments":9,"created_at":"2015-04-13T22:02:11Z","updated_at":"2016-11-08T09:10:46Z","closed_at":"2016-01-09T04:50:27Z","body":"hi,\n\nI had the code installed on my own laptop a month ago, and everything worked fine.\nNow, i just created a new instance on EC2, and installed/pulled the code, but getting:\n\nubuntu@ip-172-31-42-56:~$ linkedin-scraper http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffweiner08\n/home/ubuntu/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.1/gems/mechanize-2.7.3/lib/mechanize/http/agent.rb:933:in `response_read': 999 =>  for  -- http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffweiner08 (Mechanize::ResponseCodeError)\n    from /home/ubuntu/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.1/gems/mechanize-2.7.3/lib/mechanize/http/agent.rb:262:in`block in fetch'\n\nThis is the first call i am ever making, so it cannot be already blocked from Linkedin !! Do you know what could be happening ?\nThanks!\nMatt\n"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/yatish27/linkedin-scraper/issues/comments/259083626","html_url":"https://github.com/yatish27/linkedin-scraper/issues/44#issuecomment-259083626","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/yatish27/linkedin-scraper/issues/44","id":259083626,"user":{"login":"tadast","id":218239,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/218239?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/tadast","html_url":"https://github.com/tadast","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tadast/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tadast/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tadast/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tadast/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tadast/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tadast/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tadast/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tadast/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tadast/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-11-08T09:10:46Z","updated_at":"2016-11-08T09:10:46Z","body":"@aaark  LinkedIn does not want you to scrape their website, so after simultaneous requests they block your IP address. A solution would be to use a proxy server (i.e. channel all your scraping traffic through another server with IP that is not blacklisted yet), but it's only a matter of time until they detect and block the new IP address again, so there is no reliable solution unless you have access to many machines in different IP ranges. Popular provider IP ranges have been banned already, so you can't use AWS or Digital Ocean."}}
{"actor":{"display_login":"tadast"}}