There's no real code in this recipe. It's simply an exposition of some of the concepts related to the legal issues involved in scraping. I'm not a lawyer, so don't take anything I write here as legal advice. I'll just point out a few things you need to be concerned with when using a scraper.
Scraping legality and scraping politely
Getting ready
The legality of scraping breaks down into two issues:
- Ownership of content
- Denial of service
Fundamentally, anything posted on the web is open for reading. Every time you load a page, any page, your browser downloads that content from the web server and visually presents it to you. So in a sense, you and your browser are already scraping anything you look...
