| ▲ | metalcrow 7 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Anyone familiar with the legal reasons Twitter might be able to prevent sites like nitter from working? I believe scraping is legal but I'm sure there are details that make this different | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | zedeus 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
From the letter(s): > X has documentary evidence that you are scraping X Data, circumventing X’s API access controls and rate limits, accessing X using X accounts and session tokens in violation of X’s rules, and republishing X Data to the public. X’s Terms of Service, Developer Agreement, and Developer Policy strictly forbid such conduct. See https://x.com/en/tos (“[C]rawling or scraping the Services in any form . . . is expressly prohibited.”). By your own description, Nitter “uses Twitter’s unofficial API” and routes all requests through your servers, and requires operators to supply real X accounts to function. > Your actions constitute a flagrant breach of the contractual and legal obligations you agreed to when accessing the X services. Your actions also violate various state and federal laws, including, but not limited to, the Texas Harmful Access by Computer Act (§ 143.001 and § 33.02) and the Lanham Act (15 U.S.C. §§ 1114, 1125). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | zolla 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
if i understand correctly, in Meta v. Bright Data, the court ruled that brightdata was allowed to scrape public profiles because the user is unauthenticated. thus I do not believe that precedent is in favor of nitter currently | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||