question Scraping data from sites

[eurorealtor]

Hello Everyone,

I would like to start my research right here on NP. Is it legal / allowed / ethical to scrape a certain data from YelloPages, Yelp, Google or other sites? I am working on a directory website, targeting certain area and it would take months to add all the businesses into the database one by one. If that's something I could legally do, any suggestion for a scraping software or methods? I am using ListingPro pre-build theme. Any advice would be highly appreciated. Thanks

Tomas

 

[Kate]

Maybe some of the data may be purchased through legal channels ? It means easier integration too. Even scraping is going to take time. Curating the data too.

 

[james haw]

Look at the site's TOS/usage policies. Some data can be under free information laws (depending on the country etc).

 

[eurorealtor]

I have found some tools and sites online, as import .io for data scraping, also there is a group of developers in India offering up to 25k of data for $249 per site scraped, but need to make sure the TOS of each site will allow to do so. I just made a request on Fiverr, I believe these guys know what they are doing and where they are allowed to do so. Thanks for replies.