Is web scraping illegal? Depends on what the meaning of the word is is.(distilnetworks.com) |
Is web scraping illegal? Depends on what the meaning of the word is is.(distilnetworks.com) |
That is, if a web-scraper can be reasonably indistinguishable from a human, then certainly we can't say web-scraping is illegal across the board.
Web scrapers look just like real humans, and its publicly available data, so when a website doesnt authorize web scrapers, how do you draw a legal differentiations?