Track LinkedIn followers - #9
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LinkedIn has no public API for follower counts, and the Marketing Developer Platform needs an approved app plus OAuth tokens that expire, which is a lot of machinery for one number. The logged-out company page does carry the count, so read it from there. It is scraped, so it is fragile in two ways: the markup can change, and LinkedIn serves an auth wall to some datacentre ranges, which GitHub Actions runners are. Both are handled by writing nothing rather than failing — the collector catches its own errors and the combiner already skips fields whose file is absent, so a blocked run loses this number and nothing else. The regex deliberately ignores abbreviated counts like "10K followers": no number beats a wrong one. Closes #6.
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scverse/stats#9 adds the field. It is scraped from the logged-out company page, so a run that gets blocked will not have it, and the tile is behind a `with` rather than assuming it is there.
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Closes #6.
LinkedIn has no public API for follower counts. The Marketing Developer Platform can give them, but it needs an approved app, page-admin verification and OAuth tokens that expire. The logged-out company page does carry the count, so this reads it from there. No new secrets.
npx tsc --noEmitclean; ran the collector against the live page and the combiner over its output, giving"linkedin_followers": 3421instats.json.