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Ask HN: Is it illegal to crawl Google search results?
And scrape a particular website for verification purposes? (I wont be re-posting the data so that I won't become their competitor).
- HNNewer 8y agoNo
- yasp 8y agoMaybe a violation of Terms of Service, you'd need to check. But Google has anti-scraping measures and will block you if it detects bot-like behavior.
- db48x 8y agoThere's certainly no law against it.
- Endy 8y agoIllegal? No. Immoral? Also no. Will they try to stop you? Probably. If you can figure out how to beat their Captcha, you're golden.