Ask HN: Scraping Internet job listings and listing on public job board legal? 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. |
https://www.careeronestop.org/jobsearch/findjobs/state-job-b...
as legitimate sources as they are run for public agencies that aren't claiming any copyright. I think there's no problem aggregating these with other job listings, including those that are paid.
The thing to remember is: they aren't being scraped "off the internet" but rather from somebody's site -- and if that site has a ToS which says the material is copyright, and/or has any other restrictions -- or there's a robots.txt that plainly forbids all form of scraping -- well, you know exactly what to do from there. Right?