So the bot just has to run at human speeds so it does not get banned, it still won't get tired or make unpredictable mistakes. And you can run it from different IPs to parallelize.
--Falcorian
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Brian Brian.Mingus@colorado.edu wrote:
Not likely. I've been banned from Google's regular search at least a dozen times during semi-frenetic search sprees in which I was identified as a bot. There is no doubt that if you try to automate it you will be quickly shot down.
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
Brian wrote:
Unfortunately the only way I've found to download the full text of a
public
domain book from Google is to flip through the book a page at a time, copying the text to your clipboard. There are roughly 2-3 million public domain books in Google Books.
That's easy to fix :)
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