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Unfortunately, this is one of the most effective methods of discouraging wanton scraping. I’m not sure about the laws in Canada, but aren’t these convictions p

• brandon272 7y ago
  > Unfortunately, this is one of the most effective methods of discouraging wanton scraping. Maybe they could require you to add (and verify) a credit card and then not charge it for fewer than 30 queries a month. Of course, it's a solution that brings other problems, but it's one way of using payment systems to provide the service and keep it free for everyone but the scrapers.
• emsy 7y ago
  Ask for name and date of birth. Voila, no scraping.
  • distances 7y ago
    With the current state of PII leaks, I'm not so sure.
• throwaway40324 7y ago
  Hmm.. hold my, no wait.. take my beer.
• LorenPechtel 7y ago
  A simple, pretty much unscrapable system: App on your phone that you use to take a picture of the license. The system returns the current status.
  • Mo3 7y ago
    That is far from unscrapable. Could probably be done within hours with the Android emulator.
    • 3fe9a03ccd14ca5 7y ago
      And I’m sure it would be openALPR on the backend, which would gladly parse a dynamically generated “picture” of a license.
    • LorenPechtel 7y ago
      If you had a picture of the license you could certainly scrape it--but then you're doing it legitimately anyway, no need to scrape. Without a picture of the license it's not going to return anything but an error.
• lacker 7y ago
  They could have just added a captcha.