Is data scraping legal?
A.Data scraping from public data repositories is very common and in most cases legal. However, copyright infringement is a major concern for us. If your purpose is to steal site Y’s content so you can put it on your site and try to earn some lunch money off pay-per-click ads, don’t ask us to help you. The goal of data scraping is not to try and get something for free or little cost, but to save you lots of money in the long term by automating essential business processes that are currently being done manually or not at all due to overwhelming cost or time constraints. If you are trying to scrape an online directory that you could buy for $400 bucks, but just don’t feel like coughing up the cash, our services are not for you. (And if they were we’d still charge you more than the $400 price tag of the directory.) That said, it is up to you to determine the legality of the way you plan to use our services. ScrapeGoat operates under the assumption that the data you ask us to extract will b
