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14-Jun-2025 17:20

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Scrape<ul><li>When a LinkedIn contact has something unusual in their name (eg the maiden name in brackets, or a same or PhD in brackets) then it fails to allocate the first name and last name successfully. &nbsp;<ul><li>Suggestion: &nbsp;Take anything in between brackets and delete (including deleting the brackets)<ul><li>See attachment for examples in my Connections list (6 out 1,222 ‘fail’)</li></ul></li></ul></li><li>Scraping of gender from linkedIn needs to be trimmed for it to be effective - returns “…….She/Her……”<ul><li>Let's test it</li></ul></li></ul>Settings<ul><li>The settings for MaxLinkedInContacts and LinkedInScrapeBatch don't seem to be effective. &nbsp;We should use these fields to reduce the initial scrape to make testing quicker</li></ul>Popup Message<ul><li>The popup message appears each time your launch Index - “There are 1222 connections. The system pulls data in the batch of 20 per hour. It will take approximately 62 hours or 2 days and 14 hours to completely fetch all the data of 1222 connections. Our system will auto pull data in the interval of 1 hour. You can check status in every one hour. To continue please start the process.”</li></ul>&nbsp;&nbsp;