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If we scrap youtube data and just display the content being scraped. Is it legal or illegal? The same question I want to ask regarding using youtube API as well. Can anybody please suggest.
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Right-click on any video link, then click Scrape Similar. Double-check that it has scraped all the videos, then Export to Google Docs.
Web pages detect web crawlers and web scraping tools by checking their IP addresses, user agents, browser parameters, and general behavior. If the website finds it suspicious, you receive CAPTCHAs and then eventually your requests get blocked since your crawler is detected.
Scraping of Google SERPs isn't a violation of DMCA or CFAA. However, sending automated queries to Google is a violation of its ToS. Violation of Google ToS is not necessarily a violation of the law.
Here's their Robots.txt : https://www.youtube.com/robots.txt
They aren't very welcoming of scraping which is also why youtube is inherently difficult to scrape. You can embed data from youtube no problem. If you do scrape it and embed it just don't make it obvious that you're scraping it.
Otherwise you're fine.
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