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Re:How often do people copy and paste from Stack Overflow? by hootbootscoot on Monday April 19, 2021 @09:18PM (#26869730)
That tool sounds properly dodgy too. Wouldn't their indexing of S.O. answers be itself an IP issue?
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Re:How often do people copy and paste from Stack Overflow? by smitop on Monday April 19, 2021 @09:26PM (#26869777)
Using SO data for purposes like that is allowed under the CC licence used. You don't even need to do any scraping, since you can download an offical data dump of all SO answers at https://archive.org/details/stackexchange
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Re:How often do people copy and paste from Stack Overflow? by fomine3 on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @12:33AM (#26870703)
It's great that they officially releases data dump to IA.
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