Reputation: 1

need access to a search engine's database

obviously, i think its overkill for me to run a spider that will crawl the internet autonomously like google or yahoos.

so i am wondering, if there is some way i can access a major search engine's database, instead of scraping them ?

Upvotes: 0

Answers (3)

Reputation: 6631

Google and Yahoo both have APIs:

But like everybody else said, we need more info about what you're trying to do to help you.

Upvotes: 2

Reputation: 38458

Nope. You're already violating terms of use policy by scraping them. That kind of information is carefully guarded for obvious reasons.

Upvotes: 0

Reputation: 888107