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> Reddit addresses this specifically in their TOS and prohibits it. Where? I don't see anything that prohibits scraping. There are provisions against rehosting
by Sephr 9y ago
> Reddit addresses this specifically in their TOS and prohibits it.
Where? I don't see anything that prohibits scraping. There are provisions against rehosting content, but that isn't scraping. You can scrape content without rehosting if you are locally scraping in an app, for example.
- tyingq 9y agoThat is what OP is saying he will do....rehost the content. "I actually created a site...that scrapes...from Reddit...and shows that information."
- jackschultz 9y agoThough I don't exactly rehost the content. I straight link back to the Amazon link and the Reddit comment where the link came from. I'm not even reposting the comment text which I feel makes a difference on that front, but possibly not in others opinions.
- tyingq 9y agoIf you're only reposting links, there's no issue. Content is what they care about. Reddit considers the comments to be content.
- yellowapple 9y agoYou omitted a key part there: "that scrapes comments and posts from Reddit that link to Amazon products and shows that information" It's ambiguous, but my interpretation is that it's the Amazon content (or perhaps a summary thereof) that's being rehosted, not the reddit content.
- tyingq 9y agoI'll concede that I'm now thoroughly confused as to what OP is scraping and republishing. He's revised it twice now.
- jackschultz 9y agoHere's the link to the site if this makes more sense: http://www.productmentions.com http://www.productmentions.com I got some comments on this about people not liking me throwing the url in here but figure it'd explain things better. And also, this post isn't just about whether or not what I'm doing here is legal and ok, overall thoughts on it as well.
- tyingq 9y agoSeems safe from copyright to me, it is indeed mostly links. And seems to surface funny or interesting things based on popularity, like the 55 gallon drums of "personal lube". So, the aggregation has some purpose. Good luck with it, seems an interesting idea.