Ask HN: Scraping Legality?

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Is it legal to scrape and sell the resulting scraped data? Can you be sued for doing so? In the United States.

Search engines scrape and profit from it. Scraping is legal (and that is trivially easy to find out with a quick Google search). What you do with the scraped information may violate copyright, terms of service, or personal privacy laws.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/18/web-scraping-legal-court/

You can get sued for pretty much anything in the United States.

I think it's fine to scrape a couple pages per month for research but reposting the content or re-UXing it is annoying

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