Practice Ethics And Legal Considerations (4.3) - Chapter 12: Working with External Libraries and APIs

Practice: Ethics and Legal Considerations

Lesson 4.3Working with External Libraries and APIs

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Question 1.
What is the purpose of the robots.txt file?
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Think of it as a set of rules for bots.
Question 2.
Why is throttling requests important?
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What might happen if the server gets too many requests?
3Question 3.
Why should you check the robots.txt file before scraping a site?
- To find out the site's privacy policy
- To determine which pages can be accessed by bots
- To learn about the site’s history
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What does `robots.txt` stand for?
4Question 4.
True or False: It's acceptable to scrape login-protected data without permission.
- True
- False
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What do copyright laws say?
Question 5.
Design a web scraping tool that respects ethical guidelines including checking robots.txt, implementing throttling, and acquiring data legally from a website.
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Consider the major steps needed before any scraping begins.
Question 6.
Analyze a case where a developer faced legal consequences for unethical scraping. What could they have done differently?
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Think about how each ethical guideline could have prevented their issues.

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