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Further to the practical/technical issue of being blocked, there is a legal issue: this way of coding it (= not using an API key) violates Google's Terms and Co
by jll29 6y ago
Further to the practical/technical issue of being blocked, there is a legal issue: this way of coding it (= not using an API key) violates Google's Terms and Conditions.
- xur17 6y agoAre Google's terms legally binding if you are just searching? I don't recall ever agreeing to them in that case.
- ggggtez 6y ago> is the ToS legally binding if you are just searching Based on the LinkedIn case my guess is no, because it could be considered "generally public". But that ruling is highly suspect and likely to go to the supreme court, imo.
- dvfjsdhgfv 6y agoThe onus is on them to prove that I agreed to some ToS.
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- 4636760295 6y agoIf it's publicly accessible, it's pretty much a public space, thus Google ToS is BS. It's the equivalent of walking by the Google office and taking a photo of the building, IMO. This wouldn't hold up in court.
- tvjunky 6y agoAdditionally in a court decision from last year, accessing public data is legal. https://parsers.me/us-court-fully-legalized-website-scraping-and-technically-prohibited-it/ https://parsers.me/us-court-fully-legalized-website-scraping...
- ErikAugust 6y agoThat's pretty rich coming from a company that scrapes websites for a living.