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social-scraper

Scrape public social content ethically — robots.txt, rate limits, terms of service, and API-first data collection patterns.

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## Overview

Collecting public social media data for research, monitoring, or analysis requires navigating technical, legal, and ethical constraints. This skill covers the ethical approach: respecting robots.txt, honoring rate limits, reading terms of service, preferring official APIs, handling personal data responsibly, and building scrapers that don't harm platforms or users.

This skill is about lawful, ethical collection of public data. It does not cover bypassing authentication, circumventing access controls, or violating terms of service.


Social listening at scale starts with data collection done right: respecting platform rules, managing rate limits, and building pipelines that survive API changes. This skill covers the legitimate patterns for gathering public social data — through official APIs first, with robust engineering around them — for brand monitoring, trend analysis, and audience research.
## When to use

- Planning social listening or brand monitoring
- Collecting public posts for research or analysis
- Deciding between APIs vs. scraping
- Reviewing the legality of a data collection plan