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Pretty sure crawling and scraping is legal even if there's a robots.txt.


As long as it’s public. If you need to bypass auth or similar, that’ll get you in trouble.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/09/victory-ruling-hiq-v-l...




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