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Legal and Ethical Considerations

Legal and Ethical Considerations

Learn about legal and ethical considerations with web scraping.

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In web scraping, we collect data or information published on a web page without asking the content owner for permission. Because of this, we need to be aware of some legal and ethical considerations.

Legal considerations

  • Copyright infringement: Web scraping may violate copyright laws if the scraped content is protected by copyright. Website owners may argue that scraping their content without permission infringes their intellectual property rights. ...