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Web Scraping might land you in Jail

6 pointsby techtorover 5 years ago

4 comments

sharemywinover 5 years ago
It also might not be.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;emmawoollacott&#x2F;2019&#x2F;09&#x2F;10&#x2F;linkedin-data-scraping-ruled-legal&#x2F;#1ca89bb61b54" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;emmawoollacott&#x2F;2019&#x2F;09&#x2F;10&#x2F;linke...</a>
lamubanaoover 5 years ago
what about using something like proxycrawl? will that help in anything? They say it&#x27;s safe
nostrademonsover 5 years ago
Clickbait title unless you repeatedly circumvent explicit protections to keep you out of their systems (eg. IP bans and written warnings). Copyright infringement and ToS violations are both civil infractions, not criminal ones. It may get you sued, though.
zefyover 5 years ago
<i>cough</i> python