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I don't think the question was: "is it legal to scrape", rather: "do they like to be scraped". If they wanted to, I'm sure they could make scraping harder (more
by sverhagen 7y ago
I don't think the question was: "is it legal to scrape", rather: "do they like to be scraped". If they wanted to, I'm sure they could make scraping harder (more annoying). Which, I suppose, thus comes down to: is being aggregated a net plus or minus for their business. Probably "it depends" on what the aggregator does with the data. So, just to get this pun in: it then comes down to: is being aggregated a net plus or minus, IN AGGREGATE.
- everdev 7y agoThen no, very few for profit companies like to be scraped. It would be easier for them to provide an RSS feed or a free API if they wanted to share their data.