Ask HN: Scraping Legality?

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Is it legal to scrape and sell the resulting scraped data? Can you be sued for doing so? In the United States.

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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.

I think it's fine to scrape a couple pages per month for research but reposting the content or re-UXing it is annoying