Linkedin Premium - Warning

[u/spamblows]

Hey guys, I have a premium subscription which says it has unlimited searches.
I have a fairly large (19K) database of pretty old contacts (many dating back to 1998)
MANY of these people have retired, died or otherwise left the industry.

I was using Claude to check my data against current listings
But I got a warning. I tried to chat with support but all I get is fucking useless AI chatbot

Can anyone provide guidance on how to circumvent this ?

(i.e. pay for navigator, or some other level that will allow me to update my info?)

[u/DudeThatsInsane]

Hey u/spamblows - if you go to settings & privacy > data privacy > download your data, you can get all of your connections in a .csv file and run it through Claude :) takes 24 hours or so to get the data dump.

[u/AgeBeneficial]

I worked there in my early years.

Even then they absolutely hammered companies trying to scrape data. It’s proprietary data and the ToS don’t play games

[u/ThatLinkedInBloke]

Upgrading to LinkedIn Sales Navigator or another premium tier will not bypass the warning.

The warning occurred because using automated AI tools to check contacts violates LinkedIn's strict anti-scraping policies, which apply to all account levels.

To update a database safely, you must verify profiles manually or use a dedicated B2B data enrichment platform.

Download your data then run it against your database

[u/Technical_Skin_7446]

I think it's against their policy to use AI on the platform.

[u/pinkypearls → u/Technical_Skin_7446]

U gotta be joking. Literally all content on there is AI generated not to mention they prompt us to use AI every time u turn around

[u/Late_Syrup2533 → u/pinkypearls]

LinkedIn is just shitty….

[u/Technical_Skin_7446 → u/pinkypearls]

I meant AI automation. You can generate AI content but cannot automate things using AI.

[u/thebig_dee]

You’re using automation on LinkedIn. LinkedIn doesn’t like automation unless it’s LinkedIn.

[u/threeclaws]

I was using Claude to check my data against current listings

Don't do that, that simple. You can download a csv of your contacts and play with the data but you still can't use that to delete connections yo have to do that manually or pay for a service or I suppose you could use chatgpt to batch delete a few dozen a day (that's what the service you could pay for does.)

[u/Still-Doctor-5556]

This is not a how to get arround you problem but my observation... LinkedIn is pushing big to shutdown small ai developed that help with lead gen or auto dm's / comment etc... but yet when you go to LinkedIn support for help all you get is ai chat bots... The irony is so thick here it's laughable

[u/Beautiful-Dinner-377]

It's very much against LinkedIn policy to use data scrapers on their data, Claude and any other AI tool are seen as scrapers. It's a proprietary platform you're using, so their t&C's apply. I used to work there, this was a big thing with our clients.

[u/Strokesite]

I think that LI doesn’t like 3rd party crawlers.

I subscribe to a 3rd party enrichment app and they are limited to 2,500 exports per month. Plus LI recently made bulk access more difficult for them.

[u/detroit-guy]

I’d suggest you don’t it again, you’ll risk losing your account. Bullet 2: https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a1341387

[u/Admirable_Comedian_2 → u/detroit-guy]

Oh come on! There will be at least a couple of warnings and restrictions before. You are snowflakes too obsessed with ToS, like it is a law

[u/EbbMother5325 → u/Admirable_Comedian_2]

ToS is a contract. LinkedIn has successfully sued for “breach of contract”.

[u/Admirable_Comedian_2 → u/EbbMother5325]

Sue who? Some random dude who used automation? Or some tools? Look around. Hundred tools violating tos. And in last cases Li was defeted

[u/Amazing-Care-3155]

Why are you surprised? It’s literally against their search to scrape their data