Re:Congrats! Web scraping is legal! (US precedent)
by kevin2r on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @09:20AM
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Wonder if this means more native apps that are harder to scrap and less websites from companies that don’t want their data scrapped.
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Re:Congrats! Web scraping is legal! (US precedent)
by TrickyRick on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @09:26AM
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Native apps are generally a lot easier to scrape since they rely on an API which can't be changed willy nilly without breaking compatibility with older apps. Also you can't do captcha etc on API calls in the same way you can on websites. And of course the data is neatly formatted to be machine readable.