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There was a previous discussion of this last year: http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=1537825 http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=1537825 I also recall (but c
by aquark 15y ago
There was a previous discussion of this last year: http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=1537825 http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=1537825
I also recall (but can't find) another discussion of screen scraping where the consensus seemed to be 'be very careful of the legalities'. If you are small you might fly under the radar, but if you are successful you might just be opening yourself up to a whole can of worms.
Regardless of the outcome of any battle over this, the battle itself would be a severe distraction.
- fatalerrorx3 15y agoGood advice, I read the discussion you posted and there was a lot of insightful tips as well, which I've kind of worked out along the way. In terms of legality, this service will be scraping on behalf of the user, meaning they provide their login credentials and are granting permission to the server to perform the scrape..We'll eventually need to have a Terms and Privacy section which covers the possible legal issues, this is still in the prototyping phase but it's good to know before launch what is allowed and what isn't by each website