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  1. 23rd Jul 2012, 03:19 AM
        
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    Question Is Web Scraping is legal

    Is web scraping or data extraction from other websites is legal or not? like extracting data from gamespot, imdb or from any other site and use it on a personal site.
    raisajid Reviewed by raisajid on . Is Web Scraping is legal Is web scraping or data extraction from other websites is legal or not? like extracting data from gamespot, imdb or from any other site and use it on a personal site. Rating: 5
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  2. 24th Jul 2012, 08:50 AM
        
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    How can it be legal ?
    only open source is legal in legit way !
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  3. 24th Jul 2012, 02:23 PM
        
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    It says under each website TOS, can their content be re-used, and, if can, how.

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  4. 27th Jul 2012, 02:46 AM
        
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    Web Scraping is never legal at all.
    it makes your site useless for GOOGLE SEO and the max you can do is to credit the source from which you got the content or else it becomes a legal hassle for you.
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  5. 27th Jul 2012, 04:48 AM
        
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    thanks guys,
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  6. 29th Jul 2012, 01:45 AM
        
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    Quote Originally Posted by warriortime View Post
    Web Scraping is never legal at all.
    it makes your site useless for GOOGLE SEO and the max you can do is to credit the source from which you got the content or else it becomes a legal hassle for you.
    It is legal to scrape information. It is not legal to use it as your own ie autoblogs.
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  7. 29th Jul 2012, 01:47 AM
        
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    If nothing is stated in their TOS on how their content can be used, then it's legal.
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  8. 31st Jul 2012, 01:38 AM
        
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    Quote Originally Posted by raisajid View Post
    Is web scraping or data extraction from other websites is legal or not? like extracting data from gamespot, imdb or from any other site and use it on a personal site.
    Majority have an RSS Feed and/or API therefore this is a type of "Legal Scraping" as they're providing the services for you to use them.

    However, Some may require a API Key and if abused too much they may ultimately remove your key, if it's public - depends on the restrictions on how they deal with such issues.
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  9. 1st Aug 2012, 07:26 PM
        
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    read the site tos before scraping.
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  10. 6th Aug 2012, 05:11 PM
        
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    Quote Originally Posted by Apathetic View Post
    If nothing is stated in their TOS on how their content can be used, then it's legal.
    You mean then its illegal ? If ways to use someone others material are not stated, that doesn't mean you can freely use it.
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