Web scraping and legal issues, or how not to get into trouble?

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Before you start scraping, it is worth familiarizing yourself with legal regulations . The terms of use of websites are important here, which in some cases may prohibit such actions. You should also pay attention to issues related to personal data protection, compliance with GDPR and avoiding blocks used by websites, such as CAPTCHA or protection against too frequent requests .

Before starting to scrape a website, you should familiarize yourself with its copyright regulations and its general terms and conditions . It is also worth sending an appropriate message to the owners of the website, because this mom database will give us a specific picture of whether we can engage in web scraping on their territory. You can read more about legal issues in the topic of scraping here !

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How to avoid getting blocked while scraping?
To avoid detection and blocking, it is worth using several techniques . One of them is random delay between requests to avoid suspicion of automated crawling of pages . Changing the User-Agent allows you to simulate the traffic of a browser user , and using a proxy allows you to change IP addresses, which helps avoid blocks.

Additionally, using Selenium with a headless browser can allow for simulating natural user interactions.