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by vorpalhex 1417 days ago
Web scraping is legal and legitimate.
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yuliyp 1417 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 1416 days ago
Oddly, no, not really.

Scraping is legal.

Attempting to block it is a grey area.

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