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How would you scrape a creator's post-engagers into a daily, ICP-scored lead list, without getting your LinkedIn flagged?
Quick context so the question makes sense:
I run LinkedIn lead gen (I book qualified sales calls). Right now the way I
find prospects is fully manual. I follow a handful of "watering hole" creators
in my niche, people whose audience is basically my ideal client. Every time one
of them posts something good, I go through everyone who liked or commented, pick
out the people who match my ICP, then send a connection request and start a
normal human conversation. No pitch, just a real chat. It works. It's just slow
because I do all of it by hand.
I want to automate the sourcing part. The workflow in my head:
1. Watch a list of creators. When one of them posts, catch it.
2. Pull everyone who engaged with that post (likers + commenters).
3. Enrich and score each person against my ICP (title, industry, company size,
signals on their profile).
4. Every morning I get a CSV of the highest-scoring, most relevant people from
the last day of engagement.
5. I do the human part myself: connection request + warm DM, zero automation on
the actual messaging.
The wall I keep hitting is LinkedIn itself. We all know how aggressive it is
about automation, rate limits and restrictions. My account is literally my
business, so a ban isn't "annoying," it's fatal.
So my honest question for the people here who have actually built this kind of
thing:
If this were your system, how would you build it so it's safe and reliable?
Specifically:
- Where would you pull the engagers from? Apify actors, PhantomBuster, an
unofficial API, a separate throwaway scraping account? What's actually low
risk right now?
- Would you keep the read-only scraping completely off my main profile, and
only ever send connects from the main account?
- What daily and weekly numbers do you treat as safe in 2026 for connects and
DMs on a warmed account?
- For scoring/enrichment, what are you using? Clay, a custom LLM step,
something lighter?
- And honestly, where's the line where this stops being worth automating and
should just stay semi-manual?
I'm asking because I want to understand the architecture and build it properly,
not buy a black box I can't fix when it breaks. So if you've built something
like this, I'd genuinely love to go deep in the comments. Stacks, real numbers,
the one mistake that got your account flagged so I can avoid it.
I'll share back exactly what I end up building and the numbers once it's live.
How would you do it?
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How would you scrape a creator's post-engagers into a daily, ICP-scored lead list, without getting your LinkedIn flagged?
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