Ask HN: Scraping Internet job listings and listing on public job board legal?
I’m aware that job listings are technically public domain but curious if one creates a job board but the jobs have been scraped off the Internet and also include job listings that recruiters have paid to post on the job board is considered legal/ethical. I'd point to https://www.careeronestop.org/jobsearch/findjobs/state-job-b... as legitimate sources as they are run for public agencies that aren't claiming any copyright. I think there's no problem aggregating these with other job listings, including those that are paid. By and large, no. The thing to remember is: they aren't being scraped "off the internet" but rather from somebody's site -- and if that site has a ToS which says the material is copyright, and/or has any other restrictions -- or there's a robots.txt that plainly forbids all form of scraping -- well, you know exactly what to do from there. Right? Doesn't the scraped job posts get more reach? So in essence the paid job posts get even more value for their money.