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Hipkiss I want to create an mobile application for a specific game, but that game doesn't have any open API to get the information needed like items, enemies and alike, but they do have an official wiki site so I plan to scrape those important data and make a database out of it.

Be extremely careful with this. Scraping the data in order to make your product work is one thing but then monetising the product based off the data scrape - you could find yourself in a lot of legal battles.

So be careful where you get the data from and how they feel about what you're doing with it (depending on the source). If in doubt just ask them :)

Thanks for the advice Hipkiss in the context of monetizing it - I mean, the revenue would be coming from Ads, what about that?

Ads will be better than straight up charging people to use your service but if the content means more users which in tern means more revenue from ads then the originator of the data may press you for a share of the profit. Always best to check but this is all only an issue at launch. For testing and proof of concepts phases I wouldn't worry at all.

That's a good point though, thank you so much.