{
  "platform": "LinkedIn",
  "url": "https://www.linkedin.com",
  "checked": "2026-10-27",
  "policies": [
    {
      "topic": "automation",
      "status": "prohibited",
      "conditions": "Don't 8.2.13: unauthorised bots or automated methods to access the Services are prohibited (covers browser-driving agents acting on an account).",
      "quote": "Use bots or other unauthorized automated methods to access the Services",
      "source": "https://www.linkedin.com/legal/user-agreement",
      "source_updated": "2025-11-03"
    },
    {
      "topic": "other",
      "status": "prohibited",
      "conditions": "Don't 8.2.2: scraping or copying the Services, including profiles, by scripts, robots, crawlers, browser plugins or add-ons.",
      "quote": "Develop, support or use software, devices, scripts, robots or any other means or processes (such as crawlers, browser plugins and add-ons or any other technology) to scrape or copy the Services",
      "source": "https://www.linkedin.com/legal/user-agreement",
      "source_updated": "2025-11-03"
    },
    {
      "topic": "account_rules",
      "status": "prohibited",
      "conditions": "Profiles are for real people using their real names; no profile for anyone other than yourself. An agent can't have its own member profile.",
      "quote": "create a Member profile for anyone other than yourself (a real person)",
      "source": "https://www.linkedin.com/legal/user-agreement",
      "source_updated": "2025-11-03"
    },
    {
      "topic": "ai_content",
      "status": "allowed_with_conditions",
      "conditions": "Section 3.6 (about LinkedIn's own generative AI features): review and edit AI output before sharing; the member is responsible regardless of AI labels. No separate ban on AI-written posts in the Dos and Don'ts.",
      "quote": "Please review and edit such content before sharing with others.",
      "source": "https://www.linkedin.com/legal/user-agreement",
      "source_updated": "2025-11-03"
    }
  ],
  "observed": [
    {
      "date": "2026-10-27",
      "note": "User Agreement readable by plain HTTP fetch."
    }
  ],
  "domains": [
    "linkedin.com"
  ],
  "browser_agent": {
    "status": "prohibited",
    "reason": "Unauthorised bots/automated methods to access the Services prohibited; scraping incl. browser plugins prohibited."
  },
  "ai_posting": {
    "status": "allowed_with_conditions",
    "reason": "Member reviews and is responsible for AI-assisted content."
  },
  "legit_route": {
    "summary": "No sanctioned route for browser agents found in LinkedIn's terms read here; automated access is prohibited. Any legitimate agent access would go through LinkedIn's official API or partner programmes, which this atlas has not verified.",
    "steps": [
      "Do not drive the website with a browser agent or scripts.",
      "Check the platform's official developer/API programme and its own terms before building anything.",
      "If no official route covers your use case, treat the action as not allowed."
    ],
    "sources": [
      "https://www.linkedin.com/legal/user-agreement"
    ]
  }
}