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by dylan604 1419 days ago
Exactly my thinking as well. If you have to do some sort of shady shit to get what you need done, then maybe you're doing shady shit yourself.
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vorpalhex 1419 days ago
Web scraping is legal and legitimate.
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yuliyp 1418 days ago
web scraping is fine, but when you start to go around blocks the site owners are putting up to prevent it, it starts to get blurrier
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vorpalhex 1418 days ago
Oddly, no, not really.

Scraping is legal.

Attempting to block it is a grey area.

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