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Perfectly feasible technically. However aren't you stepping into a legal minefield? After all, it's a "private" API. Furthermore, since you're explicitly going
by phs318u 10y ago
Perfectly feasible technically. However aren't you stepping into a legal minefield? After all, it's a "private" API. Furthermore, since you're explicitly going around the hurdles they've laid out for the public (captchas, T&C), you're surely painting a target on your head?
Note, I'm not debating whether this is a good or bad thing, just that in the current environment this is surely a legally dodgy manoeuvre.
- lhnz 10y agoHas anybody ever been sued for scraping a public website?
- Rebelgecko 10y agoWeev spent about a year in jail for doing it
- toomuchtodo 10y agoWasn't even scraping, just incrementing a query param.
- 15155 10y agoAnd the conviction was vacated on a technicality, so standing precedent on the issue is a little thin.
- bdellovibrio 10y agoWho?