abhimanyuPathania / lyrico

A python based command-line lyrics downloader
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/lyrico
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actively prevent use as a scraper #14

Open yuwash opened 6 years ago

yuwash commented 6 years ago

Both the EULA of Musixmatch 1.5 (o) and the Terms of Use of FANDOM (LyricWiki) "User Conduct" 10 (ii) prohibit scraping the site. Notably, the Lyrics Terms of Service of LyricsMode doesn’t state such a restriction. Probably lyrico should at least set a crawl rate or, to be safe, even require an explicit user interaction for every site access.

I’m not an expert in this topic, but I was looking for a legal way to download lyrics and found this, although probably the most popular python library for this purpose, still not completely safe. I’ve read about this topic in the article Benoit Bernard: "Web Scraping and Crawling Are Perfectly Legal, Right?", 18 April 2017.