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Re:Show HN: Open Covid-19 Vaccine Appointments by michaelmior on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @11:05PM (#25938010)
Probably not a surprise, but this likely violates Walgreens ToS:

> nor will you use or exploit the Services in any way other than as expressly permitted by these Terms; > .. > deploy or utilize any automated method of collecting content from our site, such as robots, crawlers, and scraping mechanisms

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Re:Show HN: Open Covid-19 Vaccine Appointments by graton on Thursday January 28, 2021 @12:36AM (#25938607)
> Probably not a surprise, but this likely violates Walgreens ToS:

Does that matter though?

Scraping LinkedIn's website was against the Terms of Service but LinkedIn lost in court.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiQ_Labs_v._LinkedIn

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Re:Show HN: Open Covid-19 Vaccine Appointments by michaelmior on Thursday January 28, 2021 @12:02PM (#25944905)
I would personally err on the side of adhering to terms that a company asks. But although IANAL, it does seem likely that since the scraping is for the public good that even if this did go to court (unlikely), that the court would not rule in favor of Walgreens.
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Re:Show HN: Open Covid-19 Vaccine Appointments by ekatzenstein on Thursday January 28, 2021 @12:00AM (#25938400)
Look at all the open slots in moosup, ct: https://getmyvaccine.org/zips/02886

These slots may not get filled.

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