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Re: So, leboncoin.fr doesn't like my email alert webapp

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Post by jfoucher »

meepmorp wrote: post #7

This post is confusing both because I do not speak French and because the caffeine hasn't kicked in yet, so I read that as LeBron Coin. Which doesn't seem all that bad for a gimmicky crypto currency, honestly.

So there's this website that's the 7th in france according to Alexa (http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/FR) It's the craigslist of france. They don't have email alerts so I built a web app that does just that.

Then they noticed the traffic from my server (I guess) and blocked my IP from scraping their site, making the app basically useless, so I just forgot about it.

Now they are telling that I'm using their trademark in a way that can make users confuse my service with theirs, that according to their TOS I can't event link to their website without authorization (am I even bound by their TOS if I don't use their website?) and so on and so forth.

It was just a side project for me, so I don't mind dropping it.

The source code is on Github though if anyone is interested (https://github.com/jfoucher/lebonmail)

Re: So, leboncoin.fr doesn't like my email alert webapp

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Post by kubiiii »

eaxbin wrote: post #9

Anyone care to explain, to the non-french-speaking crowd, exactly what leboncoin is? And what the letter says?

This is our craiglist. And they also have the craiglist of many other countries. The website op made crawls leboncoin and other websites to look for specific items for people. The letter mentions both the use of a "closely" related name and the linking of listings as in violation of the TOS.

Re: So, leboncoin.fr doesn't like my email alert webapp

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Post by LaurentGh »

baby wrote: post #5

Leboncoin is so badly made it's a joke, and they completely monopolize the market. I'm raging just thinking I'm gonna have to use it to look for an apartment and sell my furniture in Bordeaux those next months. Makes me want to build a competition.

I would love to work on an alternative too. It will be hard to attract people, but with strong features, would be possible. (But Craiglist is still #1 in the US, even if it's uglier than leboncoin...)

Re: So, leboncoin.fr doesn't like my email alert webapp

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Post by eaxbin »

kubiiii wrote: post #12
eaxbin wrote: post #9

Anyone care to explain, to the non-french-speaking crowd, exactly what leboncoin is? And what the letter says?

This is our craiglist. And they also have the craiglist of many other countries. The website op made crawls leboncoin and other websites to look for specific items for people. The letter mentions both the use of a "closely" related name and the linking of listings as in violation of the TOS.

Thanks!

That's, fairly crazy.

Re: So, leboncoin.fr doesn't like my email alert webapp

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Post by conradfr »

baby wrote: post #5

Leboncoin is so badly made it's a joke, and they completely monopolize the market. I'm raging just thinking I'm gonna have to use it to look for an apartment and sell my furniture in Bordeaux those next months. Makes me want to build a competition.

Well you don't need it to find an apartment, there are alternatives.

I see Leboncoin as Craiglist, they are ugly etc but they just work.

Re: So, leboncoin.fr doesn't like my email alert webapp

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Post by wallzz »

In brief , Craiglist french website version known as "leboncoin.fr" sent a letter to the author of "lebonmail.fr" a website that uses leboncoin.fr API to send its users a daily email alerts of items to be sold on "leboncoin.fr". The letter ask the author to stop using the service provided by leboncoin.fr immediately .

Re: So, leboncoin.fr doesn't like my email alert webapp

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Post by retube »

baby wrote: post #5

Leboncoin is so badly made it's a joke, and they completely monopolize the market. I'm raging just thinking I'm gonna have to use it to look for an apartment and sell my furniture in Bordeaux those next months. Makes me want to build a competition.

> I'm raging just thinking I'm gonna have to use it to look for an apartment

Holy first world problems batman!

Re: So, leboncoin.fr doesn't like my email alert webapp

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Post by ekianjo »

jfoucher wrote: post #11
meepmorp wrote: post #7

This post is confusing both because I do not speak French and because the caffeine hasn't kicked in yet, so I read that as LeBron Coin. Which doesn't seem all that bad for a gimmicky crypto currency, honestly.

So there's this website that's the 7th in france according to Alexa ( http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/FR ) It's the craigslist of france. They don't have email alerts so I built a web app that does just that. Then they noticed the traffic from my server (I guess) and blocked my IP from scraping their site, making the app basically useless, so I just forgot about it. Now they are telling that I'm using their t…

Use proxies.

Re: So, leboncoin.fr doesn't like my email alert webapp

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Post by kubiiii »

wallzz wrote: post #16

In brief , Craiglist french website version known as "leboncoin.fr" sent a letter to the author of "lebonmail.fr" a website that uses leboncoin.fr API to send its users a daily email alerts of items to be sold on "leboncoin.fr". The letter ask the author to stop using the service provided by leboncoin.fr immediately .

There is no official API for Leboncoin, neither alert option, explaining the creation of the op website.

Re: So, leboncoin.fr doesn't like my email alert webapp

#20

Post by klawed »

meepmorp wrote: post #7

This post is confusing both because I do not speak French and because the caffeine hasn't kicked in yet, so I read that as LeBron Coin. Which doesn't seem all that bad for a gimmicky crypto currency, honestly.

For those who don't read French and don't wish to investigate too much, "leboncoin" (le bon coin) roughly means "the good neighborhood/hangout" (and literally means "the good corner") in French.
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