If they're charging that for a snapshot you can be pretty certain they'll go
after you if you start scraping data for your app.
Al.
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From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On
Behalf Of PeeDee [[email protected]]
Sent: 11 January 2010 10:30
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [android-discuss] Re: Screen scraping
"If your idea is a good one why not contact the site owner and offer
them a share of sales"
At the moment they are asking £27,000 ( $43,598.36 ) per annum for a
snapshot of the data and more £££ for monthly updates. For some reason
I was thinking, on the whole, android apps were lucky to make £1000+.
Not sure it would be worth it to them but I could be wrong.
Pd.
On 11/01/10 08:09, Al Sutton wrote:
> Screen scraping without the site owners permission is pretty much
> universally disliked. Whilst you may find you can justify it legally
> by using the app to download and parse the data (as opposed to using a
> server to redistribute the information), you may find that the site
> owner will occasionally tweak the site just to break your parser.
>
> If your idea is a good one why not contact the site owner and offer
> them a share of sales in return for legitimate use of the data. You
> may find they're interested in having an Android app but just don't
> have the resources available to make one available.
>
> Al.
>
> On 11 Jan, 00:14, PeeDee<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Could do with opinions on this. I've done quite a bit of research on
>> the legalities to use web site data via a screen scrape. To my mind I
>> can do this as long as I don't sell the information scraped. So, if I
>> was to sell an app that scraped data based on a users request, would
>> this be seen as "normal use". Basically, all I believe I am doing is
>> providing a different interface. Am I right in thinking its the end
>> users responsibility to request formal written permission if they are
>> going to use the information for things other than stated as "Permitted
>> Use"?
>>
>> One copyright statement reads.
>>
>> Permitted Use. Viewers of this Information are granted permission to
>> access this [NAME REMOVED] copyright material and to download the [NAME
>> REMOVED] copyright material onto electronic, magnetic, optical or
>> similar storage media provided that such activities are for private
>> research, study or in-house use only. Any other use of the material
>> requires the formal written permission of [NAME REMOVED].
>>
>> Anyone else using this type of method in their apps?
>>
>> Would like your opinions :-)
>>
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