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Re:Indian Railways stations, trains and schedules database i... by sramana9 on Sunday December 04, 2011 @03:04AM (#3310180)
Thanks for informing me that it is not legal to scrape http://www.indianrail.gov.in. I am rewriting the code to scrape only http://indiarailinfo.com, which does not explicitly forbid scraping. Is it legal to scrape such a site (without overloading it)? Is it legal to share that code?
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Re:Indian Railways stations, trains and schedules database i... by rasagy on Monday December 05, 2011 @01:40AM (#3313480)
I'm not sure if there are any general rules/guidelines in India for this. However, IndianRailInfo doesn't have any Copyright/Disclaimer mentioned on their homepage. So I see no reason why it should be a problem. Re:Source, till it's not used to scrape Copyright/private data, it shouldn't be a problem. Mention this clause in the disclaimer/license. Will you be putting it on GitHub?
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