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Re:Udemy course enroller: Get paid udemy courses for free by rockyj on Saturday December 18, 2021 @10:58AM (#29605415)
Seems a bit illegal. Also do not run random scripts from the internet which control your browser. For all we know, they could be scraping your own sensitive data.
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Re:Udemy course enroller: Get paid udemy courses for free by mmerlin on Saturday December 18, 2021 @12:50PM (#29606620)
It's legal to scrape public websites.

And if you can read Python you have nothing to fear

Read the source before you blindly run anything!

the /scrapers/ folder in particular e.g.

https://github.com/aapatre/Automatic-Udemy-Course-Enroller-G...

If it was closed source or if you are ultra paranoid there is plenty more you can do for safety

e.g.

- run the code in a disposable VM

- run the code one step at a time, maybe in debug mode, or a Jupyter notebook for example

- Wireshark

etc etc

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