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Re: [a bit OT] Automate a (G o o g l e) search from a list of strings

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Le 20-09-2023, à 08:46:06 +0000, Andy Smith a écrit :

>Hello,
>
>On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 08:13:43AM +0200, steve wrote:
>> Le 19-09-2023, à 16:52:24 +0200, Nicolas George a écrit :
>> > what you intend is completely forbidden by Google's terms and
>> > service. And they have detection: please only do this on a
>> > computer and network access when you will be the only one
>> > inconvenienced when they block your access. It happened on a
>> > computer I co-administrate.
>>
>> Why would it be forbidden, I just want to automate what I could do
>> manually? Nothing evil in my approach.
>
>Google terms of use forbid mechanization, automation and scraping of
>their service. And as Nicolas says, they do check, and they do
>punish offenders. At best you'd be hoping that the volume of your
>queries falls below their radar. But I wouldn't risk it.
>
>A typical punishment is to require a CAPTCHA be solved for any query
>from your netblock to any Google property, which is immensely
>annoying.
>
>I have had to terminate my own customers on multiple occasions over
>their inability to take this exact issue seriously, because it
>really upsets OTHER customers when they suddenly need to solve a
>CAPTCHA to do a search query or look at their email.

Thank you very much for this very clear explanation, I didn't know that
(never read those terms of use to be honest).

I ended up doing my searches by hand, it took some time and that's all
right.

Best,

s.

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[a bit OT] Automate a (G o o g l e) search from a list of strings steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2023-09-19 16:50 +0200
  Re: [a bit OT] Automate a (G o o g l e) search from a list of strings Michael Kjörling <2695bd53d63c@ewoof.net> - 2023-09-19 16:50 +0200
  Re: [a bit OT] Automate a (G o o g l e) search from a list of strings Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2023-09-19 17:00 +0200
    Re: [a bit OT] Automate a (G o o g l e) search from a list of strings Jason <jason@7748229.xyz> - 2023-09-19 19:30 +0200
    Re: [a bit OT] Automate a (G o o g l e) search from a list of strings steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2023-09-20 08:20 +0200
      Re: [a bit OT] Automate a (G o o g l e) search from a list of strings Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2023-09-20 10:50 +0200
        Re: [a bit OT] Automate a (G o o g l e) search from a list of strings steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2023-09-20 11:40 +0200
        Re: [a bit OT] Automate a (G o o g l e) search from a list of strings Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2023-09-20 17:50 +0200
          Re: [a bit OT] Automate a (G o o g l e) search from a list of strings Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2023-09-20 20:40 +0200
            Re: [a bit OT] Automate a (G o o g l e) search from a list of strings <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-09-20 21:20 +0200
            Re: [a bit OT] Automate a (G o o g l e) search from a list of strings Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2023-09-20 23:00 +0200
              Re: [a bit OT] Automate a (G o o g l e) search from a list of strings The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2023-09-21 00:00 +0200
                Re: [a bit OT] Automate a (G o o g l e) search from a list of strings Tamas Sohamar <sohamartamas@gmail.com> - 2023-09-21 07:10 +0200
  Re: [a bit OT] Automate a (G o o g l e) search from a list of strings Karl Vogel <vogelke@pobox.com> - 2023-09-20 04:10 +0200
    Re: [a bit OT] Automate a (G o o g l e) search from a list of strings Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-09-20 04:40 +0200

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