Is web-scraping a legal way to retrieve data and use it?
I suspect it should be, because it's public data but I don't know.
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Ekaitz Zárraga 👹 (ekaitz_zarraga@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Aug-2018 09:32:50 CEST Ekaitz Zárraga 👹 -
Ekaitz Zárraga 👹 (ekaitz_zarraga@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Aug-2018 09:33:21 CEST Ekaitz Zárraga 👹 I'm asking for a friend because I don't really give a shit.
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Nando Sola (mrsolo@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Aug-2018 10:48:19 CEST Nando Sola @ekaitz_zarraga Out of politeness: have a look at the “terms & conditions” section, if any. And do not ignore robots.txt, because scrapers are bots too!
Ekaitz Zárraga 👹 repeated this.
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