There are many laws a site can try to stop you doing this using: * Copyright * Database right * Computer misuse act * License agreement to use site
If you are worried about this, I would either a) get permission from the site, or b) make sure they are a public authority and you are making a generally useful site in the public interest (e.g. as TheyWorkForYou) It all depends on what exactly you're trying to do. If you are running a business, I would recommend Francis Davey (who posts sometimes on this list) as a lawyer / computer scientist with expertise in this area, if you'd like a proper legal opinion about what you intend to do. Francis On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 06:47:03PM +0100, Paul Waring wrote: > Other than "respect robots.txt and don't make 5,000 requests/second", > does anyone know if there are any rules about scraping websites and > performing some form of analysis on the aggregate results? I'm > particularly thinking of any legal obstructions which prevent people > from aggregating data, which presumably Google, Yahoo etc. (and > mySociety in some cases I guess) manage to get around or ignore. > > Cheers, > > Paul > > -- > Paul Waring > http://www.pwaring.com > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list [email protected] > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
