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Re:Ask HN: Is it OK to scrape data to gain affiliate members... by IC4RUS on Tuesday January 01, 2019 @09:04PM (#18803700)
Illegal how so? Maybe I'm misinterpreting what he is saying, but isn't he just getting publicly displayed product information from multiple companies, and then comparing it?

This is the sort of site I'm imagining: http://www.logicalincrements.com/

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Re:Ask HN: Is it OK to scrape data to gain affiliate members... by liondancer on Tuesday January 01, 2019 @09:25PM (#18803779)
Yes, this is more or less what I am trying to do. I am considering added images as well
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Re:Ask HN: Is it OK to scrape data to gain affiliate members... by IC4RUS on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @12:26AM (#18804366)
I can't speak to the legality of it, but I don't believe that this is immoral in any sense, especially because it sounds that you have to be approved as an affiliate by the company that displays the data you're scraping.
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