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> Scraping google search results is illegal. IANAL, can someone please elaborate? This sounds wrong in several ways, one of which being that Google results are
by lazyjones 6y ago
> Scraping google search results is illegal.
IANAL, can someone please elaborate? This sounds wrong in several ways, one of which being that Google results are almost exclusively scraped from somewhere else already.
- ttul 6y agoIt is decidedly not illegal to scrape web sites. This was recently established by a court [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiQ_Labs_v._LinkedIn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiQ_Labs_v._LinkedIn
- TechBro8615 6y agoTangentially related, this would be a fun target for the anti-trust lawsuits. Force google to open its search results as an API service. Allow them to charge for it, sure. But make it an open API. (Isn’t it weird they don’t offer this already? Makes you think.)