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MrScraper (PT Pena Teknologi Indonesia): The Web-Scraping Company in Legal Notice No. 050/SOMASI/RW/IX/2026

Rahmat Wibowo·

Case record: the mrscraper.com home page, "Scrape web data for E-Commerce"

This post looks at the company side of Somasi No. 050/SOMASI/RW/IX/2026, a formal legal notice I sent on 1 September 2026 to MrScraper, which operates in Indonesia through PT Pena Teknologi Indonesia. The letter was issued in Indonesian and English. It is a legal notice, not a police report, court filing or finding. I have not seen a response from the company, and I do not assert that it has committed any offence. For the employment side and the person who signed my contract, see the separate post on Mr. Cahyo Subroto.

Who the company is

MrScraper markets a web-scraping product at mrscraper.com under the slogan "Scrape web data … Get clean, structured data from any website at any scale." Its site says it is used by "6000+ people" and "trusted by the world's leading companies." The letter identifies its Indonesian operating entity as PT Pena Teknologi Indonesia, and notes that a hosting lookup placed the public site on a server in Montreal, Canada, with a Delaware, USA address in its privacy policy (Evidence B-8). I was engaged by PT Pena Teknologi Indonesia as an "AI Engineer" from 8 August to 8 November 2025.

Evidence B-2: "MrScraper is trusted by the world's leading companies," placed beside other companies' logos

What the letter says about the business

  1. A catalogue of about 90 scraper templates. The site's use-case page shows "Showing 1 to 12 of 90 results" across eight pages (Evidence B-3). The cards I captured are named after third-party platforms, including Amazon, Amazon Prime Video, eBay, AliExpress, Walmart, Shopee, Etsy, Google Maps, Google Scholar and Google Workspace (Evidence B-4 to B-7).
  2. Third-party logos used as card thumbnails. I argue that this, together with the "trusted by" line, may suggest an association or endorsement that these companies have not given. To my knowledge MrScraper holds no licence to those marks and no copyright in the artwork.
  3. No Electronic System Operator (PSE) registration, to my knowledge. Government Regulation 71/2019 and Ministry Regulation 5/2020 require private-scope operators who serve Indonesia to register. I did not verify the register myself, which is why the letter says "to my knowledge."
  4. Possible access and server-load issues. The letter says authenticated scraping could touch areas behind logins, and high-volume automated requests could degrade a target's service. It also says plainly that this cannot be proven from my materials, because only the platforms hold the server-side logs.

Evidence B-3: the template catalogue, "Showing 1 to 12 of 90 results"

Evidence B-5: the Shopee, Etsy and Amazon template cards

Evidence B-8: IP lookup for mrscraper.com showing a Montreal, Canada host

Legal basis I relied on

I wrote the letter myself, without a lawyer. For the marks, it cites Law 20/2016 on Marks, Arts. 100 and 102 (criminal) and Art. 83 (civil claim by the mark owner). For the logos, it cites Law 28/2014 on Copyright, Arts. 9, 40 and 113. For system access and interference, it cites Arts. 30, 33 and 36 of the ITE Law. It cites the Personal Data Protection Law (Arts. 65, 67 and 68) only to the extent authenticated scraping captures personal data, and US trademark and copyright law as exposure for the rights holders to evaluate.

What I demanded of the company

By 17:00 WIB on Friday, 4 September 2026, I asked MrScraper to stop operating the scraping business in and targeting Indonesia until it registers as a PSE and evidences a lawful basis for each third-party target. I also asked it to remove the roughly 90 third-party names and logos and the "trusted by" claim pending rights verification, to disclose its full legal identity and licensing, and to confirm in writing that it holds no registered copyright or licence for those logos. The letter also demanded IDR 1,500,000,000 for the employment matter described in the Cahyo Subroto post.

Limits of this record

  • This is my account and my legal reading; no authority has made a finding.
  • A purely descriptive reference such as "extract data from eBay" can be defended as nominative fair use. The letter itself says the stronger argument is the combination of logos, trust language, repetition and a commercial sales page, and that whether this is a criminal or only a civil matter is for the rights holders and a court.
  • The "source-identifying use for similar services" element of Art. 100 is, in my own table, "arguable," not established.
  • The disruption and illegal-access points are unproven and depend on logs held by Google, Amazon and Shopee.
  • The PSE point rests on my knowledge, not on a registry search attached to the letter.
  • The letter also quotes forum accounts that display Google, Amazon and Shopee names and logos and attacked me. The letter does not say MrScraper or its officers operate those accounts, and I do not claim that here.
  • The IDR 1.5 billion figure is a demand, not an assessed loss.
  • I am not a lawyer, and this post is not legal advice.

Right of reply and correction

MrScraper and PT Pena Teknologi Indonesia are invited to respond, correct, or add context, including proof of PSE registration or of any licence for the marks shown. A substantive reply may be published alongside this article, edited only for privacy, safety and relevance. If reliable evidence shows any statement here is wrong, I will correct it and note the change.

See also: the bilingual edition of the letter and the follow-up complaint.

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