“Telegram additionally prohibits data scraping as part of its Content Licensing and AI Scraping Terms, which apply to all users, businesses, and third-party services accessing the platform.”
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The prohibition is universal in scope, covering every category of platform accessor, with no carve-out for commercial or research use.
Every reader, regardless of whether they are an individual user, business, or third-party service, is prohibited from data scraping on Telegram.
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access or search the Platform Services...through the use of any engine, software, tool, agent, device or mechanism (including spiders, robots, crawlers or any other similar data mining tools) other than software or Platform Services features provided by Anyscale...
use automated scripts to collect information from or otherwise interact with the Services
Assist or permit any persons in engaging in any of the activities described above
"Telegram additionally prohibits data scraping as part of its Content Licensing and AI Scraping Terms, which apply to all users, businesses, and third-party services accessing the platform.Excerpt from Telegram's Terms of Service
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The prohibition is universal in scope, covering every category of platform accessor, with no carve-out for commercial or research use.
Every reader, regardless of whether they are an individual user, business, or third-party service, is prohibited from data scraping on Telegram.
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