A California federal judge finalised an agreement on Thursday between LinkedIn and two software companies, ProAPIs and joint business operator Netswift, requiring the firms to stop scraping member data at scale, stop selling and transferring it, cease accessing LinkedIn through fake accounts and delete the data already scraped. LinkedIn sued the companies and their chief executive in October 2025, alleging they built a network of bogus accounts — numbering in the millions — that scraped member, company and school information along with reactions, comments and posts, and that they created hundreds or thousands of new accounts daily, making the activity impossible to stop even though individual accounts were blocked within hours. Sarah Wright, who oversees litigation and enforcement for LinkedIn, described the outcome as vindication of the position that "your profile is yours" and that what members share is intended for their professional community rather than for an outside company to take and use. ProAPIs, which describes itself as a data pipeline platform, said it does not offer tools to scrape LinkedIn and has agreed never to do so. The judgment is the second scraping win LinkedIn has publicised this year, following action against a firm distributing a scraping browser extension five months ago.

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