Ask HN: Is scraping webpages for research purposes considered legal 1 points by fantasticwaddle 8y ago ↗ HN
[–] viraptor 8y ago ↗ Depends on a country. And in practice on how much money the people behind the website can throw at the lawyers when annoyed.For the US you may want to read about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz [–] Petrakis 8y ago ↗ Also depends on the ToS of each page, and their robots.txt should allow or disallow crawling
[–] Petrakis 8y ago ↗ Also depends on the ToS of each page, and their robots.txt should allow or disallow crawling
[–] brudgers 8y ago ↗ If it matters pay a lawyer for a legal opinion. If it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. Good luck.
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[ 0.26 ms ] story [ 14.8 ms ] threadFor the US you may want to read about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz