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I just wrote a fb scraper, using a headless browser: https://github.com/niczem/trawler https://github.com/niczem/trawler Still a d*ckmove from FB, especially c

• willxinc 6y ago
  You won't be sued (I'm not a lawyer) as long as you're not breaking and ToC, or misleading users into using it and sending you their data. That's the reason the actor in the article is being sued, not because they're scraping, but because it was sending it to a 3rd party without consent or knowledge.
  • niczem 6y ago
    ... that actually seems pretty legit^^
  • sellyme 6y ago
    > You won't be sued (I'm not a lawyer) as long as you're not breaking and ToC, or misleading users into using it and sending you their data. You can probably mislead them all you want in most jurisdictions. After all, that's what Facebook is already doing - how many of its billion+ users do you think are fully aware of how much external data Facebook gets access to? Outright lying on the other hand, that's what's going to get you in trouble: > a privacy policy that claimed they did not collect any personal information