legal_scraping
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What courts have actually held about scraping, crawling, and training-data acquisition. Answers questions in the form an engineer asks them: does ignoring robots.txt create liability, does a browsewrap bind a bot, is public data outside the CFAA. Records binding scope honestly — a Ninth Circuit holding is not US law — and tracks the full history of hiQ v LinkedIn, which is routinely cited as making scraping legal and which hiQ ultimately lost on contract. Covers the EU text-and-data-mining exceptions and their opt-out. Free — this call costs nothing. No account or payment required.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| jurisdiction | string | no | Substring match, e.g. "EU", "UK", "US-federal", "California", "Germany". |
| status | string | no | Filter to one lifecycle state. |
| dead_only | boolean | no | Return only rules that are NOT live law — vacated, superseded, or still proposed. These are the rules most often wrongly believed to be in force. |
| verified_only | boolean | no | Only rows whose source URL resolved when last checked. Off by default: many primary sources (courts, national gazettes) block automated checkers, so "blocked" is not "bad". |
| search | string | no | Free-text over summary, instrument and detail. |
| limit | integer | no |
Raw JSON schema
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"jurisdiction": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 40,
"description": "Substring match, e.g. \"EU\", \"UK\", \"US-federal\", \"California\", \"Germany\"."
},
"status": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"in-force",
"enacted-not-yet-in-force",
"proposed",
"vacated",
"superseded",
"unknown"
],
"description": "Filter to one lifecycle state."
},
"dead_only": {
"type": "boolean",
"default": false,
"description": "Return only rules that are NOT live law — vacated, superseded, or still proposed. These are the rules most often wrongly believed to be in force."
},
"verified_only": {
"type": "boolean",
"default": false,
"description": "Only rows whose source URL resolved when last checked. Off by default: many primary sources (courts, national gazettes) block automated checkers, so \"blocked\" is not \"bad\"."
},
"search": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 200,
"description": "Free-text over summary, instrument and detail."
},
"limit": {
"type": "integer",
"minimum": 1,
"maximum": 200,
"default": 50
}
},
"additionalProperties": false,
"$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#"
}