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Web crawling, scraping or otherwise downloading large sets of publicly available information on the Internet should be handled with care.
Web crawling, scraping, or otherwise downloading large sets of publicly available information on the Internet (hereafter referred to as just "crawling") should be handled with care.


You should always understand if any data you are planning on scraping is publicly available but is still encumbered.  Some things that are publicly accessible are still under copyright and are important to understand what restrictions on any data that you crawl from remotely accessible sites.
You should always understand if any publicly available data you are planning on crawling is encumbered or not.  Some things that are publicly accessible are still under copyright and it is important to understand what the restrictions are on any data that you crawl from remotely accessible sites.


There are a number of different sites that still give access to academic institutions through IP based filtering but have restrictions on scraping or crawling.  There can also be the case that the service is not adequately built for programmatic crawling.  In this case these organizations only often option to sites who crawl them is to ban IP addresses (or ranges).  This of course can have impacts on individuals who try to then use these services from UMIACS public IPs and are blocked.
There are a number of different organizations that still give access to academic institutions (such as UMIACS) through IP based filtering, but have restrictions on crawling.  The services that they provide may also not be adequately built for programmatic crawling.  In this case, these organizations may ban IP addresses or ranges if crawling is observed on those IP addresses or ranges.  This can then prevent other individuals from using these services from the same IP addresses or ranges. In the case of UMIACS, bad behavior on the part of a single user from UMIACS systems can result in all access to a service being banned from UMIACS' public IP addresses.
 
Some examples but not an exhaustive list are the following of databases or sites that may have restrictions:


Some examples of databases or sites that may have restrictions on crawling are (not an exhaustive list):
* University of Maryland Library Resources - https://lib.guides.umd.edu/c.php?g=326950&p=2194463
* University of Maryland Library Resources - https://lib.guides.umd.edu/c.php?g=326950&p=2194463
* NCBI - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/search/
* NCBI - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/search/


Users should not be ever trying to evade limitations or restrictions of data within a publicly available service they are looking to scrape.
You should not be ever trying to evade limitations or restrictions of data within a publicly available service that you are looking to crawl.

Revision as of 19:38, 27 February 2024

Web crawling, scraping, or otherwise downloading large sets of publicly available information on the Internet (hereafter referred to as just "crawling") should be handled with care.

You should always understand if any publicly available data you are planning on crawling is encumbered or not. Some things that are publicly accessible are still under copyright and it is important to understand what the restrictions are on any data that you crawl from remotely accessible sites.

There are a number of different organizations that still give access to academic institutions (such as UMIACS) through IP based filtering, but have restrictions on crawling. The services that they provide may also not be adequately built for programmatic crawling. In this case, these organizations may ban IP addresses or ranges if crawling is observed on those IP addresses or ranges. This can then prevent other individuals from using these services from the same IP addresses or ranges. In the case of UMIACS, bad behavior on the part of a single user from UMIACS systems can result in all access to a service being banned from UMIACS' public IP addresses.

Some examples of databases or sites that may have restrictions on crawling are (not an exhaustive list):

You should not be ever trying to evade limitations or restrictions of data within a publicly available service that you are looking to crawl.

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