I spent 3 days building a LinkedIn scraper.

Then I found the dataset already existed.

In this article, I share a practical data engineering lesson: sometimes the smartest move is not to scrape harder, but to start with structured data that is already available.

Read the full post here 👇
https://levelup.gitconnected.com/i-spent-3-days-building-a-linkedin-scraper-then-i-found-the-dataset-already-existed-9e9093504ca1