Legality of Web Scraping User-Submitted Content?
pedalpete: I'm not a lawyer, but had to do a bunch of legal research regarding this topic for some of my sites.I think what most of the responses so far are missing is the importance of accrediting the content to the content owner (likely the site, not the contributing users), and providing a link to the source.Check out this pdf <a href="http://www.law.berkeley.edu/journals/btlj/articles/vol16/sab...">Sableman's authorized linking</a> and search on Google v. Perfect 10.You haven't really given much to go on with respect to what you are scraping, and what you plan to do with it. But I think a bunch of common sense and ensuring that your site in no way harms the original source's site (defamation, etc), are the most important things to consider.Hope this helps.