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Jul 13, 2026 · Ethics & Law · 4 min read
Web scraping ethics and robots.txt: the lines you don't cross
A clear, practical guide to scraping ethically and legally: reading robots.txt, Terms of Service, the CFAA and EU equivalents, login walls, personal data, and the difference between 'public' and 'allowed'.
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Web scraping ethics and robots.txt: the lines you don't cross