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> without technically violating their TOS. Scraping is against most sites (and Twitter)'s ToS.
by jc4p 11y ago
> without technically violating their TOS.
Scraping is against most sites (and Twitter)'s ToS.
- tedunangst 11y agoThat's generally unenforceable unless you took affirmative action to agree to the terms. There's no proof the user even saw the terms if they're just scraping the site. Until you get a c&d letter, at which point it becomes harder to claim ignorance.
- leni536 11y ago(I'm not a lawyer, IANAL) I don't get this. When did I officially agree to their ToS? I automatically agree on the first HTTP request? I think if I never had an account or never requested an API key then I didn't agree to it. Having said that there could be other legal issues to scraping (like copyright of posted tweets), but maybe ToS is not one of them.