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There's a lot of local history locked up in facebook's nostalgia groups. I want to archive it in an open format. I want to grab new rental listings and put the
by flir 3y ago
There's a lot of local history locked up in facebook's nostalgia groups. I want to archive it in an open format.
I want to grab new rental listings and put them in an RSS feed, so I only look at each one once.
That's my uses for data scraping right now. If that destroys someone's business, I don't actually care. Maybe it's selfish, but my right to re-format data for my own convenience outweighs their right to make a profit.
- throwaway11460 3y agoNot that I think you shouldn't do it or you're doing something wrong, but describing it as a right irks me the wrong way. You don't have any right to expect someone else's computers to work for you.
- flir 3y agoI'm not sure how to phrase it except in terms of competing rights, but I take your point. At the point where I'm scraping, the data's on my computer though.
- solarkraft 3y agoYou could call them interests . It's often in a business's interest to format data in a specific way to make money, for example interlacing it with ads.
- flir 3y agoNice.
- blantonl 3y agoIf that destroys someone's business, I don't actually care. Maybe it's selfish, but my right to re-format data for my own convenience outweighs their right to make a profit. Exhibit A
- flir 3y agoYeah, it's as unsympathetic framing of my position as I can offer. But it's basically the same question as adblockers: Can I do what I want with the 1's and 0's on my own machine? I'm not going to accept that I owe anyone a business model.
- blantonl 3y agoI'm not going to disagree with your use case here. But I'm going to assume that you have some level of a conscious and you don't really mean you could give 3 shits about someone else's hard work so you can have some satisfaction at home. Because at face value that's exactly what you said.