The agreement prohibits all automated crawling, querying, scraping, spidering, and similar automated data collection from the Services without prior express written permission from Redfin.
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This provision prohibits a broad range of automated data collection activities without prior written authorization, covering screen scraping, database scraping, crawlers, robots, and spiders. The prohibition applies to 'any purpose' and 'any means,' establishing a comprehensive restriction on programmatic access to platform data.
Under this clause, users and third parties may not use automated tools to extract data from Redfin's Services without prior express written permission. The restriction covers any automated activity intended to obtain information from the Services regardless of the method used.
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"You may not automatedly crawl or query the Services for any purpose or by any means (including, without limitation, screen and database scraping, spiders, robots, crawlers and any other automated activity with the purpose of obtaining information from the Services) unless you have received prior express written permission from the applicable Redfin Company.Excerpt from Redfin's Terms of Use
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: Automated scraping prohibitions in platform terms interact with the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which has been subject to judicial interpretation regarding the scope of 'unauthorized access' in the context of terms-of-service …
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This provision prohibits a broad range of automated data collection activities without prior written authorization, covering screen scraping, database scraping, crawlers, robots, and spiders. The prohibition applies to 'any purpose' and 'any means,' establishing a comprehensive restriction on programmatic access to platform data.
Under this clause, users and third parties may not use automated tools to extract data from Redfin's Services without prior express written permission. The restriction covers any automated activity intended to obtain information from the Services regardless of the method used.
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