{"id":36118,"date":"2025-10-21T15:27:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T13:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/can-i-legally-sell-data-ive-scraped-myself\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T15:27:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T13:27:04","slug":"can-i-legally-sell-data-ive-scraped-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/can-i-legally-sell-data-ive-scraped-myself\/","title":{"rendered":"Can I Legally Sell Data I\u2019ve Scraped Myself?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>A while back, someone needed a dataset that wasn\u2019t available in its latest version. I ended up scraping it myself probably around 20k rows with 20\u201325 columns from some business related site and sent it over.<\/p>\n<p>Now I\u2019m wondering can I actually sell this kind of data on any platform, legally? If I collected it myself, am I allowed to list it somewhere for sale?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve built tons of scrapers and have sent data directly to clients before, but I\u2019m looking for a proper platform if there is one to sell on.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I know I can Google it but Reddit bros are more brutally honest than search engines hehe&#8230;<br \/> Anyone know how this actually works?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/Gojo_dev\"> \/u\/Gojo_dev <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1occu9i\/can_i_legally_sell_data_ive_scraped_myself\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1occu9i\/can_i_legally_sell_data_ive_scraped_myself\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-36118 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='36118' data-nonce='65e0e39b87' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-36118 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-36118 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, someone needed a dataset that wasn\u2019t available in its latest version. I ended up&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datatards","wpcat-85-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}