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by Karellen 804 days ago
> Isn’t the legality of web scraping still..disputed?

Are you suggesting it might be illegal to... write a program that connects to a web server and asks for a specific page, and then parses that page to see which resources it wants and which other pages it links to, and treats those links in some special fashion, differently from the text content of the page?

Especially given that a web server can be configured to respond to any request with a "403 Forbidden" response, if the server determines for any reason whatsoever that it does not want to give the client the page it requested?