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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.
you may not: (i) copy, modify or create derivative works based on any Apps; (ii) distribute, transfer, sublicense, lease, lend or rent any Apps to any third party; (iii) reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any Apps...
"access any website, server, software application, or other computer resource owned, used, and/or licensed by Twitch...by means of any robot, spider, scraper, crawler, or other automated means for any purpose...Excerpt from Twitch's Terms of Service
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The clause states: “access any website, server, software application, or other computer resource owned, used, and/or licensed by Twitch...by means of any robot, spider, scraper, crawler, or other automated means for any purpose...”
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