There's a lot of local history locked up in facebook's nostalgia groups. I want to archive it in an open format.
I want to grab new rental listings and put them in an RSS feed, so I only look at each one once.
That's my uses for data scraping right now. If that destroys someone's business, I don't actually care. Maybe it's selfish, but my right to re-format data for my own convenience outweighs their right to make a profit.
Not that I think you shouldn't do it or you're doing something wrong, but describing it as a right irks me the wrong way. You don't have any right to expect someone else's computers to work for you.
If that destroys someone's business, I don't actually care. Maybe it's selfish, but my right to re-format data for my own convenience outweighs their right to make a profit.
I'm not going to disagree with your use case here.
But I'm going to assume that you have some level of a conscious and you don't really mean you could give 3 shits about someone else's hard work so you can have some satisfaction at home. Because at face value that's exactly what you said.
I want to grab new rental listings and put them in an RSS feed, so I only look at each one once.
That's my uses for data scraping right now. If that destroys someone's business, I don't actually care. Maybe it's selfish, but my right to re-format data for my own convenience outweighs their right to make a profit.