Is web scraping legal?

Ask Google, Bing and DuckDuckGo. They have made quite a business out of scraping and cataloging the web. Is what you intend to do with what you scrape legal? That is a very different question.

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Oliver L. · Answer 2 · 2022-10-26T09:27:18-05:00

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Answered over 2 years ago

Hi there, this is a very common question. As Joey pointed out, there are quite a few multi-billion dollar businesses that are entirely based on web scraping. But if you want to dig deeper and see what courts ruled in some of the famous web scraping related law suits check out our up-to-date article on the legality of web scraping: https://blog.apify.com/is-web-scraping-legal/

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