"If your idea is a good one why not contact the site owner and offer
them a share of sales"
At the moment they are asking £27,000 ( $43,598.36 ) per annum for a
snapshot of the data and more £££ for monthly updates. For some reason
I was thinking, on the whole, android apps were lucky to make £1000+.
Not sure it would be worth it to them but I could be wrong.
Pd.
On 11/01/10 08:09, Al Sutton wrote:
Screen scraping without the site owners permission is pretty much
universally disliked. Whilst you may find you can justify it legally
by using the app to download and parse the data (as opposed to using a
server to redistribute the information), you may find that the site
owner will occasionally tweak the site just to break your parser.
If your idea is a good one why not contact the site owner and offer
them a share of sales in return for legitimate use of the data. You
may find they're interested in having an Android app but just don't
have the resources available to make one available.
Al.
On 11 Jan, 00:14, PeeDee<[email protected]> wrote:
Could do with opinions on this. I've done quite a bit of research on
the legalities to use web site data via a screen scrape. To my mind I
can do this as long as I don't sell the information scraped. So, if I
was to sell an app that scraped data based on a users request, would
this be seen as "normal use". Basically, all I believe I am doing is
providing a different interface. Am I right in thinking its the end
users responsibility to request formal written permission if they are
going to use the information for things other than stated as "Permitted
Use"?
One copyright statement reads.
Permitted Use. Viewers of this Information are granted permission to
access this [NAME REMOVED] copyright material and to download the [NAME
REMOVED] copyright material onto electronic, magnetic, optical or
similar storage media provided that such activities are for private
research, study or in-house use only. Any other use of the material
requires the formal written permission of [NAME REMOVED].
Anyone else using this type of method in their apps?
Would like your opinions :-)
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