Is this considered "web scraping"? Is it "legal"?
I've made tools to do the following:
1) Download Instagram HTML page of some user via cURL
2) Process downloaded HTML page and find all images in the format:
xxxxxxxxxxxxxx_xxxxxxxx_xxxxxxxxx_x.jpg
And construct a list of the images
Is this web scraping? Does Instagram "hate" that I do this? Can someone take legal action against me? Is making POST request to Instagram to obtain info illegal?
From Instagram's TOS:
10) We prohibit crawling, scraping, caching or otherwise accessing any content on the Service via automated means, including but not limited to, user profiles and photos (except as may be the result of standard search engine protocols or technologies used by a search engine with Instagram's express consent).
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