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Hands-On Data Science with R
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Hands-On Data Science with R

by Doug Ortiz, Vitor Bianchi Lanzetta, Nataraj Dasgupta, Ricardo Anjoleto Farias
November 2018
Beginner to intermediate
420 pages
10h 4m
English
Packt Publishing
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Legality of web scraping

The reason I wanted to talk about the law is that some people, especially beginners, fail to take it into account whenever practicing web crawling and/or scraping. Failing to recognize legal from illegal is very dangerous. Think about it. Becoming an outlaw is not something people are willing to do.

It's impossible to tell whether scrapping is legal or illegal; these things are always changing from time to time and from country to country. Generally, web scraping is not illegal; what you do with that could be. Take time to do some research on your own. Consider not just the kinds of data you are going to retrieve, but also what you're going to do with it. Seeking specialized advice is always the best solution.

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ISBN: 9781789139402