Question About Content Scraping?

[Sticks79]

Ive been reading through the threads and just want a little bit more info on content scraping? Is it ok to actually copy from other articles to add to your own content? and is this legal what about copyright and shit?

i dont want to totally copy 100% of other peoples content but it would help if i could scrape paragraphs here and there to shortcut a lot of my articles!

so is this ok or not Advice please?

Thanks in Advance:rasta:

 

[spazdr8cr]

here's what i do to keep my writing legit, other people may do differently.

i would not copy even one sentence exactly as it is written on another site. i always rewrite everything so that nobody can say it's plagiarized.

even if you went through an article and rewrote it entirely, keeping the same structure is a violation, so i take a couple different articles and interweave different paragraphs from each, and rewrite it all together.

but this is just me, i'm trying to build a legit "journalistic" site, i'm going for a pretty high standard. lots of people will just copy complete articles and say it's "fair use."

 

[Aequitas]

Scraping content is both illegal and legal, it all depends on where your getting it from, if your scraping news stories that are not 100% exclusive to a particular company then its legal, if you scrape my site then its illegal and I'll shoot you in the foot but if you scrape article directories then its legal.

 

[ubaidabcd]

What if you scrape content from youtube or yahoo images, and can scraping images and video content relative to your site or keyword increase your page rank or help with seo? I'm just wondering since there is a YACG template like that, and I'm wondering if they're doing that for SEO or just general content for the traffic.

 

[Aequitas]

What if you scrape content from youtube or yahoo images, and can scraping images and video content relative to your site or keyword increase your page rank or help with seo? I'm just wondering since there is a YACG template like that, and I'm wondering if they're doing that for SEO or just general content for the traffic.

Yahoo images is probably illegal but YouTube videos is not, basically think about it this way, if your on a site which publicly gives you code so you can use that video/image/whatever then its 100% legal to do so by following the requirements set out in that sites TOS, everything else breaks intellectual rights laws.

 

[john3232]

So basically you want to scrap content from other sites that has paid thousands and spent time writing it up just for quickness and because it is cheap. That is illegal, but there are two sides to this.

You can get content freely from them reprint article directories like

Articles Directory - Thousands of Quality Articles Listed
Article Search Engine Directory: GoArticles.com
Ezine Article Submission - Submit Your Best Quality Original Articles For Massive Exposure, Ezine Publishers Get 25 Free Article Reprints
Etc...

This may help you out considerably, but then you will hit the search engines duplicate content filter so it's always best to re-write everything.

 

[Bofu2U]

Here's a tip. For scraping article sites utilize Google and parse it per-URL. If you want to narrow it down, some article sites put paragraphs within <p></p>'s so that's what you can filter by.

If you have any other questions let me know - I just finished up v1 of my scraper.

 

[reaper]

TIP: Think about using Press Releases for content. They're specifically created to be used on other people's websites and in some cases journos will only mildly rewrite them ... if they can be bothered to even do that.

Why can't you do the same?