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Is there any legal barrier to just parse the html of twitters normal pages? If I write an app for myself, I'm pretty sure it's legal. If I sell my app, I woul
by TekMol 8y ago
Is there any legal barrier to just parse the html of twitters normal pages?
If I write an app for myself, I'm pretty sure it's legal.
If I sell my app, I would think it's still legal. It's similar to an ad blocker. It sits on the users computer and formats the page the user wants it formatted.
Am I missing something?
- cmg 8y agoNot sure about the legality of it, but what happens to your app when Twitter changes their HTML structure (without notice, which is how it would be)? If it fails, users will likely just go elsewhere.
- djrogers 8y ago> Is there any legal barrier to just parse the html of twitters normal pages? That wouldn't be a worthwhile effort, as it woulnd't give you any of the features the API deprecation is taking away (notifications, streaming vs polling, & a few others). You could just use the new API and live without those things more easily than trying to maintain a web-scraping setup.