4.3 - Ethics and Legal Considerations
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Practice Questions
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What is the purpose of the robots.txt file?
💡 Hint: Think of it as a set of rules for bots.
Why is throttling requests important?
💡 Hint: What might happen if the server gets too many requests?
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Interactive Quizzes
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Why should you check the robots.txt file before scraping a site?
💡 Hint: What does `robots.txt` stand for?
True or False: It's acceptable to scrape login-protected data without permission.
💡 Hint: What do copyright laws say?
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Design a web scraping tool that respects ethical guidelines including checking robots.txt, implementing throttling, and acquiring data legally from a website.
💡 Hint: Consider the major steps needed before any scraping begins.
Analyze a case where a developer faced legal consequences for unethical scraping. What could they have done differently?
💡 Hint: Think about how each ethical guideline could have prevented their issues.
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