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Don't do anything that places an unreasonably large load on our Services' infrastructure, use any robots, spiders, scrapers or other automated means to access our Services, try to interfere with the proper working of our Service or attempt to bypass any of our security measures
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"This license does not permit automated, programmatic, or agentic access except as expressly authorized under Section 4.4.Excerpt from Instacart's Terms of Service (Superseded Capture)
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The clause states: “This license does not permit automated, programmatic, or agentic access except as expressly authorized under Section 4.4.”
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