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Legal and Ethical Considerations

Understand the legal and ethical issues involved in web scraping. Explore copyright laws, website terms, privacy considerations, and best practices to ensure responsible and compliant web scraping.

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. ...