I’m considering using my skills as a spidering/scraping expert to take it into more of a maintstream approach and offer my skills to my scripting company, Blast Scripts.

BlastScripts has been an inside company from the get go of DevBlast, my umbrella company. BlastScripts will eventually be a script depot for me to upload programs and other libraries of PHP code and others to purchase and/or download them for free, keep track of updates, etc.

Anyway, back to the idea of consultation of scraping. I’ve always been an avid scraper. There is nothing that I enjoy more than scraping a site of it’s contents. The process is always different, entertaining, and enjoyable. There is always something new around the corner to work against. The regular expressions that I have to come up with off the top of my head prove to work flawlessly (most of the time) and that is a reward in my thinking.

The only thing holding me back from providing such a service is the legality of such a service. Is it legal to provide a program that completely defaces a website and steals most/all of their content? Is content something that is copyright in general? I have no qualms with providing my clients with the ability toscrape any given site, but whether or not scraping is prohibited is beyond my stretch of legal knowhow.