Ryanair wins screen scraping case against Booking.com in US court ruling

Post by chrisjj » Mon, Jul 22, 2024, 7:30 PM UTC

sva_ wrote: post #23

always_learning wrote: post #10

pretty bad precedent, id argue that anything thats publicly accesible is free to be scraped. So unless they did something illegal via bypassing security, then this sets a really bad tone for internet archival, web scraping and data collection in the future.

In fact I wrote my own RyanAir scraper to get the best prices on flights (it is trivial to implement, they barely have any rate limits - in particular if you use the API endpoint where you search for flights departing from a specific airport). But I guess my scraping is a lot less, as I'm only looking for a few flights

Post by nilamo » Mon, Jul 22, 2024, 7:32 PM UTC

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #208

nilamo wrote: post #207

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I fail to understand how that applies to what I said.

> fail to understand how that applies to what I said "<$1 per video transcribed" may be an order of magnitude more expensive.

Post by chrisjj » Mon, Jul 22, 2024, 7:35 PM UTC

gopher2000 wrote: post #132

soci wrote: post #130

> the companies, which use screen-scraping software to find and resell tickets, add additional charges and make it difficult for the airline to contact passengers. AFAIK, it's impossible to resell flight tickets in EU, they are attached to real names that are checked upon boarding time. If wonder how did Booking manage to resell Ryanair tickets at scale?

Do they buy-and-resell or do they just provide a front for the ticket-buying flow with their own fees added on top?

Post by xmprt » Mon, Jul 22, 2024, 7:39 PM UTC

deanCommie wrote: post #163

mFixman wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A big part is fees. OTAs like Booking sell the base part of flight from Ryanair and low cost airlines at the same price as the airlines but with much higher fees for luggage and extras. They hide this second part from flight search engines, so they appear cheaper when including luggage. I'm sure that a lot of dislike from low cost airlines comes from shitty OTAs rather than the airlines themselves.

Boosting this. I recently tried to use Expedia to book a flight from Vancouver to Toronto on Porter Airlines because then I could use my TD Reward points. The default prices that showed up in the results looked the same on Expedia or directly on Porter, so it didn't seem like I was losing anything. Except that base flight included no carry-on and no checked-baggage, which I needed to do. On Porter directly fixing tha…

Post by HDThoreaun » Mon, Jul 22, 2024, 7:57 PM UTC

hipadev23 wrote: post #162

This will very likely be overturned as it flies in the face of the 9th circuit court decision on HiQ vs LinkedIn. This is in a different circuit, so it'll need to be elevated, but CFAA is absolutely the incorrect tool to be utilized here. [1] https://calawyers.org/privacy-law/ninth-circuit-holds-data-s...