One of the most common questions asked about web scraping is its legality. It is not a secret that uncouth internet characters have misused scraping bots, turning public anger against the scraping bots. There are lazy data miners out there that download data from websites then re-use as it is without processing it for insights. Theft of data and fear of malicious bots that perform spam and Denial of Service attacks on websites have made the public very wary of scraping tools. Do you know that ‘good’ scraping bots have been scraping internet data for decades? A web scraper is
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