With over 500 million users, LinkedIn is the digital Rolodex of the modern age. If you don’t have an account you should probably get one. You can rub shoulders with major players in your industry, creep on old high school acquaintances, and strategize your next business move. That’s all for the normal user of LinkedIn, which I am, and which you should be. However, for the scraper, LinkedIn has an entirely different meaning. Instead of connecting manually with people in an industry, scrapers see LinkedIn as a gold-filled mine of personal information. A mine with 500+ million (and growing) nuggets, all of which can be harvested in a variety of ways.. Why Scrape LinkedIn? The answer should be clear: to find the right people, fast!