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The website says "The ‘API’ is powered by a simple nodeJS scraper" so I got the impression that you were screen scraping the search page. Consuming an API is ty
by mseebach 15y ago
The website says "The ‘API’ is powered by a simple nodeJS scraper" so I got the impression that you were screen scraping the search page. Consuming an API is typically not considered scraping.
It's not obvious (and IANAL) whether an undocumented API is "provided", but the bigger stink IMO is your re-licensing of the data. The data is unquestionably copyright Google, license unknown. I'd get rid of the license-tag: You're giving the world a license to re-distribute some data that may very well not be yours to distribute in the first place.
Finally, providing data for download in a neatly packaged format would qualify as duplicating and copying in my reading.
- mseebach 15y agoFWIW, http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/help/currency_disclaimer.html http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/help/currency_disclaimer.htm... must be assumed to cover access through the API as well. > Foreign currency rates provided by Citibank N.A. are displayed under licence.
- josscrowcroft 15y agoThat's fair. I pointed out somewhere in the docs that I'm open to people contributing improvements to the legals, including the license and disclaimer. For me, the important thing is that the data is available, for free and on-demand. I don't much care what license it's under, but I know that many people do.
- chc 15y agoData cannot be copyrighted. Only creative works (defined loosely enough to include Michael Bay films) are covered by copyright law.