While doing research on points of interest, I coded a new R tool to retrieve research data from Google Maps. Google Maps is a great source of points of interest data, but it heavily limits the number of results. This R script recursively generates sub-queries, until all POIs have been retrieved. The results are generated … Continue reading [R tool] Google Places API
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Web scraping is legal (for UK/EU academic researchers)
TL;DR: In the UK and the EU, it is mostly legal to scrape data for non-commercial research. UPDATE [Oct 2026]: The EU Copyright in the Digital Single Market (DSM) Directive establishes two exceptions to copyright and database rights for text and data mining (TDM), defined as automated analytical techniques used to process digital text and … Continue reading Web scraping is legal (for UK/EU academic researchers)
