Re: Legality of scraping a web site?
Re: Legality of scraping a web site?
- Subject: Re: Legality of scraping a web site?
- From: "Li'l D" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 06:43:21 -0800
Drew McCormack wrote:
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Does anyone know what the law says about web site scraping? Can you
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scrape info from any site you like, and present it in your cocoa app,
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or do you have to ask permission? If you can scrape any site, do you
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need to acknowledge the source? It is no doubt the right thing to do,
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but is it compulsory?
It varies from one website to another. Look at Google's TOS for instance, they prohibit "performing 'offline' searches on Google." See this news article re the consequences of disregarding Google's TOS:
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-883558.html
But I believe there are other search services that aren't as strict as Google and can be legally scraped.
D.
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