With the right combination of proxies, user agents and browsers, you can scrape every website. Even those that seem unscrapable.
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This outcome was great news for web scrapers, as it means that so long as a websites has made their data public you are not in violation of the CFAA when you scrape the data even if it is prohibited in some other way (T&Cs, robots.txt, etc).
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. It would be better I think if there was a treatment of the ethics here, rather than a seemingly "ra-ra go bots" attitude, as though the only consideration is commercial.
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This outcome was great news for web scrapers, as it means that so long as a websites has made their data public you are not in violation of the CFAA when you scrape the data even if it is prohibited in some other way (T&Cs, robots.txt, etc).
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. It would be better I think if there was a treatment of the ethics here, rather than a seemingly "ra-ra go bots" attitude, as though the only consideration is commercial.