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A comment on Ask HN: What is the legality of scraping recipe ingredient lists?.

Re:Ask HN: What is the legality of scraping recipe ingredien... by mannyv on Sunday July 24, 2022 @01:23PM (#32215607)
Supremes have said that cookbooks and other fact collections don't necessarily have copyright protection. Recipes definitely don't.
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Re:Ask HN: What is the legality of scraping recipe ingredien... by overeater on Sunday July 24, 2022 @01:33PM (#32215695)
As a base law, that's helpful, but I'm wondering when it gets into cfaa territory. What if you violate the terms of service to scrape it? What if you have to implement tricks like IP rotating or useragent lying to get the data? What if you accidentally scrape some creative text which is copyrightable, embedded in the recipes and accidentally sell it?
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