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A comment on Ask HN: Review my twitter search app. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Review my twitter search app by tjake on Tuesday December 08, 2009 @12:11AM (#983077)
twitter api limits us to your history, we could resort to scraping perhaps?
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Re:Ask HN: Review my twitter search app by terryjsmith on Tuesday December 08, 2009 @12:20AM (#983091)
That's what I figured. Scraping might violate the TOS and would require an actual search bot/crawler/parser as opposed to simple API access. I was more complaining about the limits of Twitter in general; I think this is a huge step in the right direction, kudos.
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Re:Ask HN: Review my twitter search app by cabalamat on Tuesday December 08, 2009 @08:24AM (#983616)
> Scraping might violate the TOS

If an orgasnisation publishes stuff on web pages, they can hardly object if others choose to access that data!

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