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Web scraping is legal as long as the data is publicly available and you're not accidentally (or intentionally) DoSing the site. DMCA does not really come into i
by MajimasEyepatch 3y ago
Web scraping is legal as long as the data is publicly available and you're not accidentally (or intentionally) DoSing the site. DMCA does not really come into it at all.
- jauntywundrkind 3y agoBut social networks are almost all private by default. It's quite against term of service to scrape Twitter or Facebook. Using third party tools is liable to get one banned. There doesn't seem to be much granting users the right or ability to either use their own clients, nor can they effectively switch away & keep their connections. These networks are treating themselves like AT&T/MaBell, and have outlawed all the Carterphones. We're locked in, in a horrific way.