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Is it illegal to scrape a page? > No! #55

Closed nelsonic closed 9 years ago

nelsonic commented 9 years ago

Started typing this into google and saw:

is-it-illegal-to

The fact that scraping or "crawling" is Google's Business Model suggests that scraping is at least "OK" ... but here are a few articles:

Legal Issues: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping#Legal_issues
It depends: http://resources.distilnetworks.com/h/i/53822104-is-web-scraping-illegal-depends-on-what-the-meaning-of-the-word-is-is/181642
Screen scraping: How to profit from your rival's data: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-23988890
Web Scraping For Fun and Profit: https://blog.hartleybrody.com/web-scraping/

nelsonic commented 4 years ago

https://parsers.me/us-court-fully-legalized-website-scraping-and-technically-prohibited-it/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22180559