Is Web Scraping Legal?

How to evaluate the legality of web scraping for your research

Content

1. Motivation and disclaimer
2. Overview of legal situation
3. Step-by-step plan to evaluate legality (or, to improve it)

Disclaimer

• I'm not a lawyer (but this has been duly compiled, on the basis of legal resources)
• The legal situation is still changing rapidly, and this deck may be outdated (soon)

Contributing

Contributions are what make the open source community such an amazing place to learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated.

If you have a suggestion that would make this presentation better, please feel free to fork the repository and create a pull request. You can also simply open an issue if you spot any outdated information, as the legal situation regarding web scraping is subject to change.

1. Fork the Project
2. Create your Feature Branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingContent)
3. Commit your Changes (git commit -m 'Add some AmazingContent')
4. Push to the Branch (git push origin feature/AmazingContent)
5. Open a Pull Request

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