By Adam Molt
How do I safely give my OpenClaw droplet permission to access the internet and LinkedIn for research purposes?
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Heya, @adammolt
If your OpenClaw droplet is a normal DigitalOcean Droplet, it already has outbound internet access by default. You don’t need to “enable the internet” unless you’ve restricted it with firewall rules.
First, check your firewall rules. If you’re using a DigitalOcean Cloud Firewall or UFW on the server, make sure outbound HTTPS (TCP 443) is allowed. Most droplets allow all outbound traffic unless you changed it.
Before going deeper, it would help to clarify one thing:
Are you planning to use LinkedIn’s official API, or are you planning to let OpenClaw browse/scrape LinkedIn pages like a human user?
The safest setup depends heavily on that answer.
Regards
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