Web Scraping NAP 2018

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July 7, 2018 at 11:21 pm #437446

Tony
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Hi Folks
Just asking the forum – if I’m scraping just the NAP from Google/yahoo, I believe we can safely publish that because it’s generally in the public domain.

But Not the website, email, or image or ANYTHING else. I can leave them alone.

We’re just seeding the listings for the sales team, so NAP is sufficient to create a simple listing that can be claimed and expanded.

Any advice here?

July 8, 2018 at 5:05 pm #437471

Paolo
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You can scrape everything, except copyrighted content.

Name, address, phone number, website URL and everything that is public domain, it can be scraped.

Avoid pictures and descriptions and you’ll be fine. Also, make sure to use proxies to scrape or they can blacklist your IP.

Thanks

July 8, 2018 at 5:05 pm #437472

Paolo
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p.s. what do you mean by NAP?

July 10, 2018 at 12:11 am #437645

Tony
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Hi Paolo! I was always told you can scrape the NAP, name address phone. seemed to be the legal term for it.

July 10, 2018 at 8:04 am #437694

Paolo
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Ok I didn’t know and I couldn’t find anything that would make sense in this list:

https://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/NAP

Thanks for letting me know
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