The authenticity of web scraping has been the subject of much debate. The question is, "is web scraping legal"? Web scraping is not a criminal offense. However, some ground rules must be followed ...

Good news for archivists, academics, researchers and journalists: Scraping publicly accessible data is legal, according to a U.S. appeals court ruling. The landmark ruling by the U.S. Ninth Circuit of ...

“The Ninth Circuit’s decision is a major win for archivists, academics, researchers, and journalists who use tools to mass collect, or scrape, information that is publicly accessible on the internet.