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If web scraping is legal then hitting the public api Amazon shouldn’t also be legal?
by whatever1 19d ago
If web scraping is legal then hitting the public api Amazon shouldn’t also be legal?
- kube-system 19d agoYes, but this case isn't about that -- it is about logged in accounts.
- jptlnk 19d agonot necessarily according to the courts. there are a number of cases where scale has been the line between permissible and not - e.g. it's fine to scrape ebay, it's not fine to build an ebay scraping business. courts haven't always ruled that way but there's definitely precedent! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay_v._Bidder%27s_Edge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay_v._Bidder%27s_Edge