Ask HN: Scraping Legality? 1 points by askingaq 3y ago ↗ HN Is it legal to scrape and sell the resulting scraped data? Can you be sued for doing so? In the United States.
[–] gregjor 3y ago ↗ Search engines scrape and profit from it. Scraping is legal (and that is trivially easy to find out with a quick Google search). What you do with the scraped information may violate copyright, terms of service, or personal privacy laws.https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/18/web-scraping-legal-court/You can get sued for pretty much anything in the United States.
[–] 32gbsd 3y ago ↗ I think it's fine to scrape a couple pages per month for research but reposting the content or re-UXing it is annoying
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You can get sued for pretty much anything in the United States.