Steve D'Aprano wrote: > On Sat, 12 Nov 2016 11:07 pm, Veek M wrote: > >> 121sukha wrote: >> >>> I am new to python and I want to use web scraping to download songs >>> from website. how do I write code to check if the website has >>> uploaded a new song and have that song automatically be downloaded >>> onto my computer. I know how to use the requests.get() module but i >>> am more interested in knowing how to download and save every new >>> song that the website uploads on the site. I would extremely >>> appreciate the help from anyone. Thanks! >> >> What you're doing is illegal > > Really? Everywhere in the world? And you're sure of this because > you're a lawyer?
'probably illegal' (i did mentally assume he's from India - the nick is very indianish and since I am Indian and noticed many badly formatted posts I felt obliged to help out) > Even if the website uses public domain or freely licenced songs? > > Even if the downloads count as fair use, time-shifting or > format-shifting? ah true >> but Youtube/websites have a lot of stuff up >> that's easily accessible - the moral issue seems ambiguous especially >> if you use adblocker.. > > Doesn't seem ambiguous to me. > Or are you one of those people who think that you are a thief for > leaving the room when ads are playing on TV? > > https://yro.slashdot.org/story/02/05/02/0550214/turner-ceo-pvr-users-are-thieves yep as in.. do the networks have a right to tempt me > > Downloading may, or may not, violate the terms of use of the website. > But you *literally* cannot watch the video without downloading it: in > order for the video to play in your browser, it must be downloaded. > That's the end of the story. "Streaming video" is just another way of > saying "downloading video, where the video is deleted afterwards". > > (Actually, streaming video is just another way of saying "lots of > pauses, stuttering, dropped frames and a really awful user > experience".) also true, but gramophone records were an inconvenience we put up with lacking a better solution.. so an inconvenience strictly speaking doesn't imply you can break the law.. however, is it fair to tempt us with these delights.. hence my moral confusion.. Anyway.. yes I agree that I have no business telling people off (and that was not my intention) it was a succinct warning of the dangers.. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list