$12k/month SaaS scraping social networks’ data

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Post by richclominson » Thu, Dec 12, 2019, 5:30 PM UTC

$12k/month SaaS scraping social networks’ data
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Re: $12k/month SaaS scraping social networks’ data

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Post by PatrolX » Thu, Dec 12, 2019, 5:50 PM UTC

Not the first to do it and the last one I know of that did got a severe beating in court and they lost a lot of money.

Re: $12k/month SaaS scraping social networks’ data

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Post by kyleblarson » Thu, Dec 12, 2019, 5:55 PM UTC

Cue the cease and desist letter in 3,2,1...

Re: $12k/month SaaS scraping social networks’ data

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Post by teddyuk » Thu, Dec 12, 2019, 5:57 PM UTC

PatrolX wrote: post #2

Not the first to do it and the last one I know of that did got a severe beating in court and they lost a lot of money.

How easy is it for a us company to do anything about a Ukraine’ian company?

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Post by b212 » Thu, Dec 12, 2019, 6:02 PM UTC

teddyuk wrote: post #4

PatrolX wrote: post #2

Not the first to do it and the last one I know of that did got a severe beating in court and they lost a lot of money.

How easy is it for a us company to do anything about a Ukraine’ian company?

Extremely hard without shady techniques and/or bribes.

Re: $12k/month SaaS scraping social networks’ data

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Post by kryogen1c » Thu, Dec 12, 2019, 6:02 PM UTC

@dang are we ok with this? This account is basically an automated submission script for this website. Submission history is nothing but. I dont mind people promoting themselves or their work, but i do not come to HN for ad aggregation or an RSS feed.

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Post by minimaxir » Thu, Dec 12, 2019, 6:04 PM UTC

kryogen1c wrote: post #6

@dang are we ok with this? This account is basically an automated submission script for this website. Submission history is nothing but. I dont mind people promoting themselves or their work, but i do not come to HN for ad aggregation or an RSS feed.

See also starterstory in the same industry: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=starterstory.com

Re: $12k/month SaaS scraping social networks’ data

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Post by nif2ee » Thu, Dec 12, 2019, 6:07 PM UTC

How is this even legal?

Re: $12k/month SaaS scraping social networks’ data

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Post by minimaxir » Thu, Dec 12, 2019, 6:08 PM UTC

A common trend I've seen recently on HN/Reddit is that due to the ruling of the HiQ vs. LinkedIn court case (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21241395), data scraping cannot be against the ToS of a given service.

That is not universally correct. And even if it is, selling the data is an easy way to an expensive lawsuit.

Re: $12k/month SaaS scraping social networks’ data

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Post by deusofnull » Thu, Dec 12, 2019, 6:09 PM UTC

funny, i build a basic little script that did this back in like 2015 so i could give my GF at the time a copy of all her instagram, which she was trying to do via scrolling + screenshots. I was thinking about expanding it but didnt. Thought it would be cool if you could order a literal physical book with all your IG photos in it. Kinda a gag gift but probably worth the cost of a modest gift (im thinkin like 20-100 bucks). Never got to the book part. Def would have run into legal troubles, but I guess if youre abroad (Ukraine?) then the US judicial system is not too much a concern.