On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 1:28 PM, রুদ্র ব্যাণার্জী <bnrj.ru...@gmail.com> wrote: > So, If I manage to use the User-Agent as shown by you, will I still > violating the google EULA?
Very likely, yes. The overall Google Terms of Services (http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/) say "Don’t misuse our Services. For example, don’t interfere with our Services or try to access them using a method other than the interface and the instructions that we provide." The only method that Google appears to allow for accessing Scholar is via the web interface, and they explicitly block web scraping through that interface, as you discovered. It's true that you can get around their block, but I believe that doing so violates the terms of service. Google does not appear to offer an API to access Scholar programatically, nor do I see a more specific EULA or TOS for the Scholar service beyond that general TOS document. That said, I am not a lawyer. If you want legal advice, you'll need to pay a lawyer for that advice. -- Jerry -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
