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		KieranMac on Jan 12, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The State of Web Scraping 2022 There are pro-social and anti-social uses of web scraping. If you have ever used Kayak or any other price discovery or price comparison website, you've relied on web scraping to provide you a service.

zffr on Jan 12, 2022 | [–]

Also google or any other search engine

tyingq on Jan 12, 2022 | [–]

I believe Kayak has agreements with the sites they scrape though. So it's a different type of "scraping", really.

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