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Should I have a web scraper project on my GitHub?

  • 12-06-2017 11:12AM
    #1
    Fukuyama
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,023 ✭✭✭


    I'm building a little tkinter tool which is essentially a web scraping tool. I'm just wondering does it look bad/unprofessional/unethical to put such a tool on a GitHub where future clients/employers might see it?

    Web scraping itself is a bit of a grey area when it comes to the rights and wrongs.

    Thoughts?

    Dean


Comments

  • #2
    lawred2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,922 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    Fukuyama wrote: »
    I'm building a little tkinter tool which is essentially a web scraping tool. I'm just wondering does it look bad/unprofessional/unethical to put such a tool on a GitHub where future clients/employers might see it?

    Web scraping itself is a bit of a grey area when it comes to the rights and wrongs.

    Thoughts?

    Dean

    depends what you're scraping really


  • #3
    Fukuyama
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,023 ✭✭✭Fukuyama


    lawred2 wrote: »
    depends what you're scraping really

    Mostly phone directories. It actually looks kind of like a spammers tool (although I don't use it for spamming people). It's why I'm a little hesitant to put it up.


  • #4
    lawred2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,922 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    Can you not just include a readme with the project describing the purpose/application of it...

    Scraping in itself isn't inherently bad. It's just a data source.


  • #5
    Fukuyama
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,023 ✭✭✭Fukuyama


    lawred2 wrote: »
    Can you not just include a readme with the project describing the purpose/application of it...

    Scraping in itself isn't inherently bad. It's just a data source.

    Cheers - I'll do that


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