Okay, copy-pasting over my other top-level comment as I believe that solutions other to scraping exists: In particular, scraping means that the fundamental data

Okay, copy-pasting over my other top-level comment as I believe that solutions other to scraping exists: In particular, scraping means that the fundamental data source is the company. It shouldn't be like that, why should the company own the data I have produced? > The Solid Project [0] (AFAIK which is led by Tim Berners-Lee) is made to tackle this exact problem. > It is about defining a standard/protocol to store personal data in a 'pod' and give minimal/granual access of my pod to web apps. > Apps are separated to pods, and it allows the decoupling of data & functionality. > You can switch(upgrade) from text message to instant messengers without losing any chat history for example. > It also has an advantage that it prevents lock-in, since one can move their data around trivially. > Looks like the OP would greatly benefit from this. > [0] https://solidproject.org https://solidproject.org