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Ask HN: Scraping Internet job listings and listing on public job board legal?

6 pointsby prodigyboialmost 2 years ago
I’m aware that job listings are technically public domain but curious if one creates a job board but the jobs have been scraped off the Internet and also include job listings that recruiters have paid to post on the job board is considered legal/ethical.

3 comments

PaulHoulealmost 2 years ago
I&#x27;d point to<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.careeronestop.org&#x2F;jobsearch&#x2F;findjobs&#x2F;state-job-banks.aspx?lang=en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.careeronestop.org&#x2F;jobsearch&#x2F;findjobs&#x2F;state-job-b...</a><p>as legitimate sources as they are run for public agencies that aren&#x27;t claiming any copyright. I think there&#x27;s no problem aggregating these with other job listings, including those that are paid.
lisasaysalmost 2 years ago
By and large, no.<p>The thing to remember is: they aren&#x27;t being scraped &quot;off the internet&quot; but rather <i>from somebody&#x27;s site</i> -- and if that site has a ToS which says the material is copyright, and&#x2F;or has any other restrictions -- or there&#x27;s a robots.txt that plainly forbids all form of scraping -- well, you know exactly what to do from there. Right?
shinryuualmost 2 years ago
Doesn&#x27;t the scraped job posts get more reach? So in essence the paid job posts get even more value for their money.