While it may not explicitly be stated in the TOS, screen-scraping is highly discouraged, and we have detection methods that could potentially ban IPs for this behavior. Plus, it kind of subverts the whole point of the OAuth flow. -Chad
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 7:12 PM, eclipsed4utoo <[email protected]> wrote: > > I was just wondering if screen scraping for OAuth for a desktop > application was against the TOS? I tried reading it, but couldn't > find anything. > > By screen scraping, I mean to send requests to twitter, and scrape the > PIN from the page, and then use it for authorization. > > Ryan >
