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Discussion on: Crawling Google Search Results - Part 3: Fetching Wiki

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Gagan Deep Singh

Is it ethical to crawl Google Search? Cause they have disallowed all user-agents for scrapping /search path in robots.txt.

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Sam Zhang

Generally speaking, it's fine as long as you don't scrape for a lot of data. That's why I put the warning at the beginning of this post.