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senkotoday at 9:03 AM0 repliesview on HN

LinkedIn in particular is quite aggressively blocking any automated attempts to read or navigate through it.

I post quite a lot there and wanted to have a copy of my posts on my blog[0] to preserve them. For a few months I was able to use a headless browser + claude code, then LI wised up and started logging it out, so I had to use a regular Chrome, log in manually and then tell the LLM to take over and slowly go through my feed.

If you're accessing sites which are not actively blocking bots, or - gasp - have an API, it's much better.

[0] example: https://blog.senko.net/may-quick-takes