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Re:Show HN: Dply – Free temporary Linux servers by vidyesh on Thursday November 24, 2016 @11:06AM (#13030966)
Wouldn't web scraping be considered abusive usage as it is frowned upon by most websites?
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Re:Show HN: Dply – Free temporary Linux servers by ovibos on Thursday November 24, 2016 @11:15AM (#13031038)
IMO scraping is only abusive if the site explicitly asks to not be scraped (via the site's robots.txt)
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Re:Show HN: Dply – Free temporary Linux servers by tedmiston on Thursday November 24, 2016 @11:28AM (#13031117)
There are plenty of ways to scrape responsibly.
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Re:Show HN: Dply – Free temporary Linux servers by OwainX on Thursday November 24, 2016 @03:22PM (#13032534)
Scraping, when done responsibly (respecting robots.txt and not overloading a server with requests) wouldn't be considered abusive in most cases. While we will be strict in enforcing abuse policies, when it's obvious a user acted with good intentions we can work on a case by case basis.
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Re:Show HN: Dply – Free temporary Linux servers by ovao on Thursday November 24, 2016 @02:15PM (#13032181)
It could be done in an abusive way, certainly.
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