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Is publishing a web scraping script on Github to get data from a website to publish it on another place, illegal?
<p>I have written a script that fetches some information that is on a website and upon command it publishes it on another place. Is it illegal to publish it on Github and also if you use it?</p>

<p>"Screen scraping" is not illegal by definition. There might be situations and conditions where it is illegal, for example on websites which are protected by a password, or for text which is protected by copyright. But on it's own, there is no problem for you to write and publish a screen scraping script.</p>

<p>The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals <a href="https://searchengineland.com/does-the-9th-circuits-new-decision-in-hiq-vs-linkedin-open-the-floodgates-to-scraping-321687" rel="nofollow noreferrer">allowed</a> HiQ Labs to scrape public data from the LinkedIn website. In an earlier <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-linkedin-ruling-idUSKCN1AU2BV" rel="nofollow noreferrer">ruling</a> by a federal judge, LinkedIn was even forbidden to use technology to prevent hiQ from accessing public profiles.</p>

<p>In a long legal process started May 2008 and ended September 2019 Ryanair lost from PR Aviation trying to forbid PR Aviation to scrape it's site. (Judgement in Dutch: <a href="https://uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/inziendocument?id=ECLI:NL:GHDHA:2018:61" rel="nofollow noreferrer">ECLI:NL:GHDHA:2018:61</a>). (Ryanair was allowed to forbid scraping in it's general terms and conditions, but those terms and conditions were not legally binding to PR Aviation).</p>
