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"Automated access to or collection of data from the Services—by any means, including data mining, robots, screen scraping, scripts, or similar data-gathering tools or software such as browser extensions and crawlers—is prohibited.Excerpt from Strava's Terms of Service
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The clause states: “Automated access to or collection of data from the Services—by any means, including data mining, robots, screen scraping, scripts, or similar data-gathering tools or software such as browser extensions and crawlers—is prohibited.”
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