haux_haux t1_jc3q8f1 wrote on March 13, 2023 at 8:36 PM

Reply to comment by dubiousadvocate in Twitter’s $42,000-per-Month API Prices Out Nearly Everyone | Tiers will start at $500,000 a year for access to 0.3 percent of the company’s tweets. Researchers say that’s too much for too little data by Hrmbee

Didn't LinkedIn sue an organisation for scraping a while back. Did that fly?

bobartig t1_jc42cxs wrote on March 13, 2023 at 9:57 PM

There’s been a lot of misreporting regarding the recent HiQ v. LinkedIn case from the 9th Circuit. The best write up I've encountered is by an Internet and Web Scraping attorney, Kieran McCarthy

The key takeaway is that in the 9th Circuit (which has the most developed law in this area) web scraping a publicly available website doesn’t necessarily constitute a CFAA violation, but that doesn’t mean what you did was either legal, or that you won’t face legal liability.

dubiousadvocate t1_jc3uc8z wrote on March 13, 2023 at 9:03 PM

I haven't heard about that. I'm curious too.

Of course anyone can file a SLAP lawsuit and hope to intimidate legal behavior through financial burden.