"The Ninth Circuit ruled in 2019 that web scraping did not violate the CFAA in hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping#United_States

I think X is also using breach of ToS as leverage, but if that worked, surely LinkedIn would have also blocked scraping that way?

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437283