Ask HN: Is it illegal to crawl Google search results?
And scrape a particular website for verification purposes? (I wont be re-posting the data so that I won't become their competitor).
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Illegal? No.
Immoral? Also no.
Will they try to stop you? Probably.
If you can figure out how to beat their Captcha, you're golden.
If you can figure out how to beat their Captcha, you're golden.
No
Maybe a violation of Terms of Service, you'd need to check. But Google has anti-scraping measures and will block you if it detects bot-like behavior.
There's certainly no law against it.