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Beta draft. Not in force until it is signed.

Acceptable use

TL;DR: scrape public pages, legally, at a pace the site can take. Do not use us to break into anything, to take personal data from behind a login, or to share your key. If you do, we can suspend your account.

What you may do

Fetch pages that anyone can see without logging in: prices, listings, search results, articles, public business profiles. That is what we are for.

What you may not do

  • No login walls, no credentials. Do not send us passwords, session cookies or tokens for accounts in order to reach pages behind a login. Do not use us to collect personal data that sits behind a login.
  • No illegal content or use. Do not fetch, store or spread content that is illegal where you are or where we are. Do not use what you collect in a way the law forbids, such as spam, fraud, or tracking a person.
  • Personal data is your responsibility. If the pages you collect hold personal data, you need a legal reason to collect and use it. You must follow the privacy laws that apply to you.
  • Respect the rules the law makes binding. Where the law gives robots.txt, a site’s terms or a rate limit legal force, follow them. You are responsible for knowing which laws apply to you and to the data.
  • No attacks. Do not use us to flood a site, to test its defences without permission, to look for security holes, or to take it down. Do not attack us either.
  • No internal targets. Do not try to reach private networks, cloud metadata addresses or our own systems through us. We refuse these, and every attempt is a reason to suspend.
  • One account per person or team. Do not open extra accounts to get more free credits, and do not get around a cap, a block or a suspension.
  • Keep your key to yourself. Your key is for you and your team. Do not sell it, post it, or build a service that gives others our API under your key.

OWNER/LAWYER the product gets past bot protection on public pages. Decide how this page talks about it, by country, before go-live.

What we can do

  • Refuse a target that we judge harmful, even if the page is public. A refused request costs nothing.
  • Limit use. We cap how much one account can spend per day and at once. When you hit a cap, the request is refused and costs nothing.
  • Suspend an account that breaks this page. When the harm is serious we do it at once, and we tell you why when we can. Suspending deletes the keys and cancels queued work. Its credits are refunded.
  • Keep usage records for an account and hand them over where the law requires it.

Report abuse

If you think someone uses Megalania against your site or breaks this page, write to [email protected]. Tell us your site and the time.

OWNER decide whether to add a separate abuse@ address.

Questions

Not sure if your use is allowed? Ask us before you run it: [email protected].