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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

X updates its Terms to prohibit crawling/scraping of its data

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X updates its Terms to prohibit crawling/scraping of its data

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

X/Twitter has updates its official Terms of Service to prohibit third parties from scraping or crawling its data.

But what if you do? Will you get caught?

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Would it be violating policy if the scrapper only took the public data and never actually signed the ToS since they didn’t make an account?

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