Who's side are you on? Google's? Yeah - I read the TOS - and thats wonderful. Aren't there any old hackers on these mailing lists? Am I the only one who wants to try and find a way to "stick-it" to Google and successfully retrieve queries without conforming to their API license?
There must be a way to perform a GET request in Perl that is indecipherable from one originating from a browser. We just need to find that way... -John On Tuesday, October 1, 2002, at 02:17 AM, Iain Truskett wrote: > * John Von Essen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [01 Oct 2002 16:02]: > > [...] > >> Your client does not have permission to get URL xxx (Client IP address: >> xxx) >> Please see Google's Terms of Service posted at >> http://www.google.com/terms_of_service.html > > As it says: please read those ToS. > > In particular: > > � > > /// No Automated Querying > > You may not send automated queries of any sort to Google's system > without express permission in advance from Google. Note that > "sending automated queries" includes, among other things: > > * using any software which sends queries to Google to determine how > a website or webpage "ranks" on Google for various queries; > * "meta-searching" Google; and > * performing "offline" searches on Google. > > Please do not write to Google to request permission to "meta-search" > Google for a research project, as such requests will not be granted. > > � > >> I though I could fool google.com by just setting my UA to Mozilla/4.0 >> but that didn't help. What's the secret? What other things do I have >> to forge to get google.com to believe that I am a browser? > > You don't. You use Net::Google or WWW::Search::Google and the Google API. > > > > cheers, > -- > Iain. > >
