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What I wonder is if the recent LinkedIn ruling implies that SO can’t prevent others from scraping the site. And given that the content is already liberally lice
by CogitoCogito 7y ago
What I wonder is if the recent LinkedIn ruling implies that SO can’t prevent others from scraping the site. And given that the content is already liberally licenses maybe scrape plus rehost is all that’s needed. Of course there are a lot of technical details that could sink this but I can’t see legal issues hindering it.
- u02sgb 7y agoSO used to offer their database of q&a for download. Has that changed?
- juki 7y agoThe data dumps seem to still be available: https://archive.org/details/stackexchange https://archive.org/details/stackexchange
- CogitoCogito 7y agoOh I had no idea. Definitely gained some respect for SO. I guess in this case, the information is at least available in case SO really jumps the shark.
- reilly3000 7y agoIts also available via BigQuery public datasets: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/google-bigquery-public-datasets-now-include-stack-overflow-q-a https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/google-bigquery-p...