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. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
