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Are there any court cases that provide precedence regarding the legality of web scraping? I'm currently looking for ways to get real estate listings in a parti

• adanto6840 5y ago
  I was involved in a scraping-related case, though in my situation we were scraping public domain data/facts/public domain media. Email me if you'd like additional info. :) More related to the submission content -- at the time we used rotating proxies, both in-house & external (ProxyMesh - still exists & only good things to say about it); they allowed us to "pin" multiple requests to an IP or to fetch a new IP, etc...
• Grimm1 5y ago
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiQ_Labs_v._LinkedIn https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiQ_Labs_v._LinkedIn That’s one of the bigger ones. Unfortunately recent events means scraping is still a gray area.
  • amelius 5y ago
    Legal gray areas are perfect for growth hacking. Just look at Uber and AirBnb.
    • Grimm1 5y ago
      And even bigger growth hack for a lot of companies would be having scraping protected by law.
  • omgwtfbyobbq 5y ago
    Do you mean this case? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Buren_v._United_States https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Buren_v._United_States I think it only applies to systems that aren't available to the general public, which in this case was the GCIC. Anything that is available to the public, even if it requires some sort of registration, would I think be legal to scrape. YMMV though.
• deleted 5y ago
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