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pinchyfingers on May 18, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Preventing Site Scraping

Right, but other sites scrape that free info and republish it with the goal of drawing traffic. Apparently, Stack Overflow has an API. I don't know the functionality of their API, but it doesn't matter: via API or web scraping, the content of the SO database is all over the web, yet SO is thriving.

josephcooney on May 19, 2012 [–]

You said "other sites scrape that free". I agree that info is all over the web but it isn't scraped, and I don't think you should keep calling it scraping.

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