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Please be aware that Facebook has sued previous scrapers out of existence and left the founder holding a bag of $3 million in personal liability. See Facebook,
by cookiecaper 10y ago
Please be aware that Facebook has sued previous scrapers out of existence and left the founder holding a bag of $3 million in personal liability. See Facebook, Inc. v. Power Ventures, Inc.
Executing a program that scrapes data from Facebook is illegal in the United States, at least until you get an explicit license from Facebook to do so. IANAL and this is not legal advice; just a layperson's opinion.
- mpeg 10y agoHe's calling it a "scraper" but it just seems to call public API endpoints, so it's perfectly fine to run and use.
- cookiecaper 10y agoThanks for clarifying that. I edited my message to be a more generic warning about executing actual scrapers.
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- minimaxir 10y agoI added the Privacy note for this reason, particularly in light of the OKCupid incident.