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Scraping offline business address and contact legally

by HandsomeMillionaire
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Hello warriors

I found there are tens of WSO selling software to scrape offline business information including addresses, telephones, emails, etc.

But I believe most if not all of the sites that are scraped from, don't allow us to do that. It is not legal. Correct me if i am wrong.

Or is there any websites that allow this?

I am thinking of building a directory site with some offline business addresses. But not sure whether I can just scrap from yellowpages and list them into my directory site..

Thanks !

Handsomemillionaire
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  • Profile picture of the author RockNRolla
    I doubt they'd be able to sell the software if it wasn't legal. It's just scraping data automatically that you could choose to do manually if you wanted to. I may be wrong though. I do use one of the more popular scrapers that sells on this forum so I would hope it wasn't against the law.
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  • Profile picture of the author Organizationer
    I guess Yelp.com is one of the sites that dont allow that.

    I think we can scrap the data to use personally but cant use the info to be placed in our onwn site or directory.
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  • Profile picture of the author mrgoe
    Originally Posted by HandsomeMillionaire View Post

    Hello warriors

    I found there are tens of WSO selling software to scrape offline business information including addresses, telephones, emails, etc.

    But I believe most if not all of the sites that are scraped from, don't allow us to do that. It is not legal. Correct me if i am wrong.

    Or is there any websites that allow this?

    Thanks !

    Handsomemillionaire
    The emails scraped are public, posted on websites. If someone leaves an email for u to use as contact, do so. But spend some time with each mail, make it personal so it doesn't get into spam.
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    • Profile picture of the author HandsomeMillionaire
      Originally Posted by RockNRolla View Post

      I doubt they'd be able to sell the software if it wasn't legal. It's just scraping data automatically that you could choose to do manually if you wanted to. I may be wrong though. I do use one of the more popular scrapers that sells on this forum so I would hope it wasn't against the law.
      Not sure about that...need clarification..

      Originally Posted by mrgoe View Post

      The emails scraped are public, posted on websites. If someone leaves an email for u to use as contact, do so. But spend some time with each mail, make it personal so it doesn't get into spam.
      How does mail get into spam? Normally just heard of email get into spam.

      Actually i am thinking of building a directory site with some offline business addresses. But not sure whether I can just scrap from yellowpages and list them into my directory site..
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      • Profile picture of the author mrgoe
        Originally Posted by HandsomeMillionaire View Post

        Not sure about that...need clarification..



        How does mail get into spam? Normally just heard of email get into spam.

        Actually i am thinking of building a directory site with some offline business addresses. But not sure whether I can just scrap from yellowpages and list them into my directory site..
        I was talking about emails getting into spam lol also, scraping from yellow pages will do them good, the only reason for posting their contact info on yp was to get exposure to the audience in the first place. You are safe, do it.
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  • Profile picture of the author travlinguy
    There's no law against harvesting public information that's freely offered by the owner. Not yet, at least.
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    • Profile picture of the author RichMarketer
      Originally Posted by travlinguy View Post

      There's no law against harvesting public information that's freely offered by the owner. Not yet, at least.
      Harvesting the public information for our own use may be acceptable. Meaning after harvesting the information, it is up to us to contact, email, mail them, etc.

      The concern here is collecting all the data from yellowpages or other directories and reuse the data to post on our own website. Because the directories (that we copy the public info from) invest their money, time and energy to compile all the information from business owners whereas we just simply collect from them for free. I may be wrong though...
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  • Profile picture of the author SunilTanna
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    • Profile picture of the author RichMarketer
      Originally Posted by SunilTanna View Post

      It seems that, legally it is not copyright infringement but it seems unethical to copy the list of addresses from other websites and put them into our own website?
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    • Profile picture of the author Organizationer
      Originally Posted by SunilTanna View Post

      A lot of facts
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      PM me for best price. Above are domain hacks just like other popular sites: goo.gl (Google), youtu.be (youtube), blo.gs (blogs), del.icio.us (delicious.com)

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