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This provision establishes X's control over how its Services may be accessed and used, limiting programmatic or automated extraction of data to cases where X grants explicit authorization. This creates a procedural requirement for users to obtain permission before implementing scraping activities.
Interpretive note: The enforceability of anti-scraping clauses against publicly available data is contested in US courts following Van Buren v. United States and hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn; outcomes depend on jurisdiction and whether data is genuinely publicly accessible.
Users are prohibited from accessing the Services through methods other than X's published interfaces and must obtain express written permission before scraping. Users are also prohibited from attempting to circumvent technical limitations or disrupt service operations.
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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 exp...
relate to transactions involving (f) the promotion of hate, violence, racial or other forms of intolerance that is discriminatory or the financial exploitation of a crime... (i) involve offering or receiving payments for the purpose of bribery or corruption.
You must not, and must not allow others to: Facilitate illegal or harmful activity through the End User Services; Cause harm to us or others through the End User Services;
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"You may not access the Services in any way other than through the currently available, published interfaces that we provide. For example, this means that you cannot scrape the Services without X's express written permission, try to work around any technical limitations we impose, or otherwise attempt to disrupt the operation of the Services.— Excerpt from X's X Terms of Service
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This provision establishes X's control over how its Services may be accessed and used, limiting programmatic or automated extraction of data to cases where X grants explicit authorization. This creates a procedural requirement for users to obtain permission before implementing scraping activities.
Users are prohibited from accessing the Services through methods other than X's published interfaces and must obtain express written permission before scraping. Users are also prohibited from attempting to circumvent technical limitations or disrupt service operations.
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