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$12k/month SaaS scraping social networks’ data

37 pointsby richclominsonover 5 years ago

8 comments

kryogen1cover 5 years ago
@dang are we ok with this? This account is basically an automated submission script for this website. Submission history is nothing but. I dont mind people promoting themselves or their work, but i do not come to HN for ad aggregation or an RSS feed.
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minimaxirover 5 years ago
A common trend I&#x27;ve seen recently on HN&#x2F;Reddit is that due to the ruling of the HiQ vs. LinkedIn court case (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21241395" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21241395</a>), data scraping cannot be against the ToS of a given service.<p>That is not <i>universally</i> correct. And even if it is, <i>selling</i> the data is an easy way to an expensive lawsuit.
atum47over 5 years ago
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;victorqribeiro&#x2F;scrap&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;scrap.js" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;victorqribeiro&#x2F;scrap&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;scrap.js</a><p>I wrote a Script that does something similar. In this case it is getting peoples name and image address (from facebook). I don&#x27;t remember why I did this, but I never thought of making money out of it
PatrolXover 5 years ago
Not the first to do it and the last one I know of that did got a severe beating in court and they lost a lot of money.
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kyleblarsonover 5 years ago
Cue the cease and desist letter in 3,2,1...
deweyover 5 years ago
Don’t these services have a “takeout” option like Twitter, Google? Where you can download everything for free?
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deusofnullover 5 years ago
funny, i build a basic little script that did this back in like 2015 so i could give my GF at the time a copy of all her instagram, which she was trying to do via scrolling + screenshots. I was thinking about expanding it but didnt. Thought it would be cool if you could order a literal physical book with all your IG photos in it. Kinda a gag gift but probably worth the cost of a modest gift (im thinkin like 20-100 bucks). Never got to the book part. Def would have run into legal troubles, but I guess if youre abroad (Ukraine?) then the US judicial system is not too much a concern.
nif2eeover 5 years ago
How is this even legal?
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