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Is scraping CraigsList legal?
by viach 10y ago
Is scraping CraigsList legal?
- rmason 10y agoI doubt they'd stop one person from doing it for a few weeks till they found an apartment. But if they sold the service commercially I'd bet sooner or later they'd be told to stop.
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- andrewguenther 10y agoIt is against their terms, but they aren't going to come after you for personal use. There have been some high profile takedowns of commercial use cases however. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/06/padmapper-and-3taps-settle-suit-craigslist-over-use-real-estate-facts https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/06/padmapper-and-3taps-se...
- lowglow 10y agoI've been hit with a Cease and Desist from Craigslist. Felt bad man. :)
- jxm262 10y agoMe too :( I wonder how many people have. A quick search on GitHub shows all kinds of cl scrapers.
- lowglow 10y agoI was providing a public service and offering free trend analysis graphs on technology stacks listed in job postings over a couple of years for different area. It was nice, but they wanted to say I owed them something like 2k per piece of information, fore every day I stored it.
- lamby 10y agoSo what if it was…?
- coredog64 10y agoI wish CL sold API calls. I have an idea for helping people find lost pets. CL is probably the best source of data, but I don't want to expend a bunch of energy and then get a C&D.