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Re^2: Is it legal to use WWW::YouTube::Download ?

by bliako (Monsignor)
on Jan 07, 2020 at 11:28 UTC ( [id://11111120]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Is it legal to use WWW::YouTube::Download ?
in thread Is it legal to use WWW::YouTube::Download ?

I wonder if "un-automating" the scrapper by introducing a tiny user-interaction (as tiny as clicking on a link in a browser or even tinier) can technically remove author's tool from robots and scrappers category.

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Re^3: Is it legal to use WWW::YouTube::Download ?
by CountZero (Bishop) on Jan 09, 2020 at 21:38 UTC
    I'm quite sure that does not save your skin as it is an obvious "trick" to circumvent that clause in the Terms and Conditions.

    That little "click" is nothing different than starting your scraping tool. Whether you do that at the begining of your scraping session, or again and again on each page makes no difference. A scraper remains a scraper and that kind of tool is explicitly forbidden.

    It might be different if, after manually clicking on a YouTube link, the data streamed to you somehow ends up on our hard-disk where - surpise surprise - you happen to find it later. Of course, there will be issues of copyright law and such, but that is a whole other can of worms.

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