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by nlh 1649 days ago
Read up on LinkedIn vs. HiQ. As long as that ruling holds (and it might not), the tl;dr is: If it's on the open web, you can scrape it. You might be violating some Terms of Service (that you never agreed to), but you're not violating (US) law.

If it's NOT on the public web - e.g. it's behind a login, then you can be sued, as you'll have had to explicitly agree to Terms of Service during your account creation and you'll then be in explicit violation of that ToS.