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Is web crawling legal?

2026-07-26

Collecting publicly available web data is legal on its own - for example, pricing data or public data that anyone can access.

That said, scraping private data behind a login, personal information, or copyrighted content without permission can raise legal issues.

nekolab only builds within legally sound boundaries, and if the target data is in a gray area, we review it with you up front before starting.

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