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"Access the Services using any automated means, crawler, or bot in a manner that circumvents or disregards Instacart's robots.txt file...which is incorporated into these Terms by reference and updated from time to time.Excerpt from Instacart's Terms of Service (Superseded Capture)
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The clause states: “Access the Services using any automated means, crawler, or bot in a manner that circumvents or disregards Instacart's robots.txt file...which is incorporated into these Terms by reference and updated from time to time.”
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