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Have you tried blekko.com ? The slashtags feature specifically does what you are describing here. Of course, using this method will not get you data from sites
by krishna2 13y ago
Have you tried blekko.com ? The slashtags feature specifically does what you are describing here.
Of course, using this method will not get you data from sites that explicitly ban crawling (like yelp.com).
Disclaimer: I used to work at blekko and I implemented the slashtags feature.
- greglindahl 13y agoblekko's "ScoutJet" crawler is allowed to crawl yelp. We sent them an email before we launched, and they were nice enough to allow it.
- palakchokshi 13y agoI see ScoutJet in Yelp's Robots.txt file. I guess I'll have to ask them nicely to allow my crawler too. But Yelp is one of many sites that don't allow crawlers so I'll have to ask each one nicely to allow mine. I had even set up a temp google site explaining what my crawler uses the data for (essentially showing results with correct attribution and driving traffic back to original site).
- palakchokshi 13y agoDo you know if Blekko asked all the sites it wanted to crawl, to allow its ScoutJet crawler to crawl their pages?