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supah | 4 years ago

scraping yes. normal usage no.

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tyingq|4 years ago

Isn't normal usage scraping in this case? Looking at whoogle-search/request.py it's "scraping" google urls via the python requests module. I'm reasonably sure google fingerprints requests and assigns different weights for "probably scraping". I wouldn't be surprised if this has a lower threshold for triggering their captchas and/or blocking.

andai|4 years ago

I often trigger Google's captchas during normal usage. It seems to suspect the more "advanced" features like "intitle:" or "inurl:", or if I search too rapidly. I take being mistaken for a machine as a compliment!