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TechnologyEnglish • 1 year ago

X updates its Terms to prohibit crawling/scraping of its data

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X updates its Terms to prohibit crawling/scraping of its data

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TechnologyEnglish • 1 year ago

X/Twitter has updates its official Terms of Service to prohibit third parties from scraping or crawling its data.

But what if you do? Will you get caught?

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14•1 year ago
Just update robot.txt coward!
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  6•1 year ago
  Took a look at their robots.txt, it appears to block all bots except Google.

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