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How about crawling search engines? For example, instead of crawling directly on facebook, crawl on a search engine with "site:facebook.com". In that case, your
by analyst74 17y ago
How about crawling search engines? For example, instead of crawling directly on facebook, crawl on a search engine with "site:facebook.com".
In that case, your data is gathered from the search engine and has nothing to do with facebook any more. And I doubt the search engine will sue you for using their service.
- Vivtek 17y agoIt's still Facebook's data (by which I mean "data that originated at Facebook"), and I guarantee you that their lawyers will still threaten a lawsuit. What do they have to lose?
- robryan 17y agoYou could then claim that the lawsuit is against the wrong person or would they argue that the original scraper was in the right and the secondary person was in the wrong?
- Vivtek 17y agoWell, it's your use of the data, not so much the scraping itself. But way more importantly, the search engine has money and you don't.