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And you could probably scrape that information from every listed restaurant in the country in a matter of seconds.
by nounaut 12y ago
And you could probably scrape that information from every listed restaurant in the country in a matter of seconds.
- cloudwalking 12y agoGoogle does not let you scrape.
- laumars 12y agoThat doesn't mean that you cannot still write a bot to scrape the content. If it's displayable in a web browser, then it's also parsable from Perl (or whatever language you choose). Adding delays between page requests and/or distributing the requests would work around a lot of bot detection systems but in worst case scenario, there are projects out there that can solve Captcha's. Essentially this can be viewed like music of movie piracy; if it can be played then it can be copied.
- cloudwalking 12y agoSure, but throttling is going to make it really slow to gather all the data you want.
- laumars 12y agoIf you're stalking someone then you already have enough data to perform a more targeted scrape (ie what town to look up businesses from)
- DanBC 12y agoLaws do not allow employers to use information about protected characteristics to discriminate against employees (or potential employees) yet people are rightly worried about revealing that information.
- silverbax88 12y agoPeople scrape Google all of the time, every day. All day long.