Web Scraping and Crawling Are Perfectly Legal, Right?
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In this post, you'll find out more on the legal aspect of web scraping and crawling, and what possible consequences you might face.
"Come on, I worked so hard on this project! And this is publicly accessible data! There's certainly a way around this, right? Or else, I did all of this for nothing... Sigh..." Yep - this is what I said to myself, just after realizing that my ambitious data analysis project could get me into hot water. I intended to deploy a large-scale web crawler to collect data from multiple high profile websites. And then I was planning to publish the results of my analysis for the benefit of everybody. Pretty noble, right? Yes, but also pretty risky. Interestingly, I've been seeing more and more projects
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