Ask HN: Is scraping webpages for research purposes considered legal

1 points by fantasticwaddle 8 years ago | 3 comments

viraptor 8 years ago |

Depends on a country. And in practice on how much money the people behind the website can throw at the lawyers when annoyed.

Petrakis 8 years ago | |

Also depends on the ToS of each page, and their robots.txt should allow or disallow crawling

brudgers 8 years ago |

If it matters pay a lawyer for a legal opinion. If it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. Good luck.