How is this even legal?
"in Jersey[1] everythings legal as long as you dont get caught[2]" - bob dylan in 'tweeter and the monkey man' by the traveling willburys.
[1] replace jersey with ukraine [2] replace caught with extradited
$12k/month SaaS scraping social networks’ data
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#12Don’t these services have a “takeout” option like Twitter, Google? Where you can download everything for free?
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#13https://github.com/victorqribeiro/scrap/blob/master/scrap.js
I wrote a Script that does something similar. In this case it is getting peoples name and image address (from facebook). I don't remember why I did this, but I never thought of making money out of it
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#14Don’t these services have a “takeout” option like Twitter, Google? Where you can download everything for free?
Facebook does, Instagram does not.
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#15@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.
You should email hn@ycombinator.com to ask questions because we don't see most comments like this. Someone else emailed me about it.
Accounts that use HN just to promote their own stuff eventually get penalized or lose submission privileges on HN. People are welcome to submit their own things as part of a variety of stories, including unrelated ones that they ran across personally and gratified their intellectual curiosity. That's the best way to participate in the community.
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#16How is this even legal?
Scraping public information is legal.
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#17Don’t these services have a “takeout” option like Twitter, Google? Where you can download everything for free?
Facebook does, Instagram does not.
This is not true, Instagram also offers this:
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#19@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.
Hey! It's the submitter here. I actually don't know how to code so I promise I have no script. I just go and share the stuff I publish here because I think that some people may find it interesting and useful as it happened with this interview.
From now on, I will be more careful with the amount and frequency of posts I share. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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#20Don’t these services have a “takeout” option like Twitter, Google? Where you can download everything for free?
Facebook does, Instagram does not.
As it's an EU law a bunch of companies have this automated. In the EU you can request the data that a company has on you from any company via a letter / form.
https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...