Brown, M. A., Gruen, A., Maldoff, G., Messing, S., Sanderson, Z., & Zimmer, M. (2024). Web Scraping for Research: Legal, Ethical, Institutional, and Scientific Considerations (arXiv:2410.23432). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2410.23432

A nice overview of the different considerations, with recommendations, for researchers who may want to use web scraping.

As scraping for large-scale AI training becomes more common, scraping for other research purposes may become more challenging.

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