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Like is there a way that i can access all of googles directory? The kind of information i would need is address, phone number, description, hours,and anything else. This would be a kind of store, not people personally. Any information would really help me. I hope i explained this well enough. Once i get this data i will build a community around it, hopefully. There are thousands and thousands of this places and i really dont want to do this state by state, but i will if i have to.
If there isnt a program, maybe someone can mention a technique, like just searching google and having an excell spreadsheet open and manually copying or writing each place. This is going to be a very time consuming project and i want to try to save as much time as possible, THANKS!
[edited by: BlueGhost at 5:16 am (utc) on Jan. 12, 2008]
Scraping info published online might work, but of course would run afoul of most sites' TOS and also involve some copyright issues if you wanted to publish it yourself. Directories have some legal loopholes related to the copyrightability of the data, but check with an attorney who knows intellectual property law before scraping and republishing someone else's data.
