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use automated scripts to collect information from or otherwise interact with the Services
(vii) use automated systems or software (including bots, scrapers, or crawlers) to access the Services in a manner that sends more request messages to ŌURA servers than a human can reasonably produce...
Assist or permit any persons in engaging in any of the activities described above
"access the Service using any automated means (such as robots, botnets or scrapers) except (a) in the case of public search engines, in accordance with YouTube's robots.txt file; or (b) with YouTube's prior written permissionExcerpt from YouTube Ads's YouTube Terms of Service
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The clause states: “access the Service using any automated means (such as robots, botnets or scrapers) except (a) in the case of public search engines, in accordance with YouTube's robots.txt file; or (b) with YouTube's prior written permission”
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