The crawler circumvents the anti-crawler measures set by the website operator or cracks the anti-crawler measures of the server to illegally obtain relevant information. If the circumstances are serious, it may constitute a crime of illegally obtaining computer information system data.
The crawler program interferes with the normal operation of the visited website or system, with serious consequences, which violates the criminal law and constitutes the crime of destroying the computer information system.
If the information collected by the crawler belongs to citizens' personal information, it may constitute an illegal act of illegally obtaining citizens' personal information. If the circumstances are serious, it may constitute a crime of infringing citizens' personal information.
Legal basis: People's Republic of China (PRC) Criminal Law.
Article 285 Whoever, in violation of State regulations, invades computer information systems in the fields of State affairs, national defense construction and cutting-edge science and technology shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention.
Whoever, in violation of state regulations, invades a computer information system other than the one mentioned in the preceding paragraph, or uses other technical means to obtain data stored, processed and transmitted in the computer information system, or illegally controls the computer information system, if the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention and shall also, or shall only, be fined; If the circumstances are especially serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years and shall also be fined.
Those who provide programs and tools specially used to invade or illegally control computer information systems, or who knowingly provide them to others, if the circumstances are serious, shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph.
Where a unit commits the crimes mentioned in the preceding three paragraphs, it shall be fined, and the persons who are directly in charge and other persons who are directly responsible shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the preceding three paragraphs.
Article 253-1 Whoever, in violation of the relevant provisions of the State, sells or provides personal information of citizens to others, if the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention and shall also, or shall only, be fined; If the circumstances are especially serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years and shall also be fined.