Am I going to jail for web scraping? | Fireship

Is it legal to mine data from a public website? Let's take a detailed look at recent lawsuits and controversies surrounding the practice of web scraping.

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- What is web scraping?
- Is web scraping legal?
- Lawsuits against data miners
- GitHub copilot lawsuit for using public code
- Can AI tools legally scrape the web?
- How does a robots.txt file work?