Is web crawling legal?

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Web crawling, also known as web scraping, data scraping or spider, is a computer program technique used to scrape a huge amount of data from websites where regular-format data can be extracted and processed into easy-to-read structured formats.

Web crawling is commonly used:

Web crawling basically is how the internet functions. For example, SEO needs to create sitemaps and gives…