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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
You will not access or attempt to access the Web Services through any automated means, including scripts or web crawlers, except through APIs or other interfaces specifically provided for this purpose.
The API terms apply to your access or use of the Services through APIs.
"(iv) use any robot, spider, scraper or other automated means to access the Netflix service;Excerpt from Netflix's Account and Content Policies
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The clause states: “(iv) use any robot, spider, scraper or other automated means to access the Netflix service;”
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