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It might be against the terms of service of the website you're crawling, which puts you in violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (i.e. you're considered
by jdavis703 10y ago
It might be against the terms of service of the website you're crawling, which puts you in violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (i.e. you're considered to be "hacking" them).
- tomsmeding 10y agoMaybe that's called "hacking" in the relevant document, but I'd classify that as overly broad.
- jdavis703 10y agoWell however you classify it doesn't matter, what matters is how the government classifies it. There's the tragic story of Aaron Swartz who was caught up in this non-sense: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz.