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I like the barebones scraper framework: https://github.com/joeyAghion/spidey

But why does Art.sy need one? I assumed they had some kind of hookup with galleries and artists...Artsy doesn't have to scrape bespoke websites, right?

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Correct. We don't do any scraping of websites, the works are fully licensed from their rights owners. This part is a huge part of what we do in terms of time and resources.

spidey may not be actually associated/used by Art.sy. It's not on http://artsy.github.com/open-source/

Yeah, there's a bunch of projects that haven't been added to the open source page. This one indeed is one of ours though.

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