1. Frame your scraping practice
The computer science student updating a table for a presentation using wikidata data is scraping. The research manager who has to produce a sales presentation scrapes data from his company and enriches it with data from other sources, such as market research or INSEE.
We can therefore define "scraper" as the action of automatically collecting data from various heterogeneous sources (websites, tables, api/applications).
1.1 Good practice
Even if we want to limit the risks, it's very difficult – at a time of RGPD, artificial intelligence, changes in the general terms of use of the major platforms – to define today the fixed and definitive legal contours of scraping.
While some aspects remain unclear, others...
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