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I don't know about the legal aspects, but if the sites you are scraping do not want to be scraped, it can turn into an arms race. They figure out a way to block your scrapers, you figure out a way around it, they block you again and so on. Even if it is legal, there are plenty of other things I'd rather spend my time building.



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