I agree, if up-to-data data was available somewhere else and free, there would be no reason to pay hackers and scrape.

You could perhaps even get website operators to "push" new data to a common crawl database. The scrapers would learn there is no value on scraping X domain because the data is available elsewhere more easily.

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jay_kyburz 3 hours ago | parent [-]

How about a website header with a link to a static zip that contains the whole website in one hit. The Zip could be hosted on some big public sever. Perhaps even mirrored locally for each nation.

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mips_avatar 2 hours ago | parent [-]

that's hard to do with rendered content, oftentimes the result depends on a backend service. Maybe you should make the service it's running public but that might be a line most aren't willing to cross.

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jay_kyburz 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I was thinking you scrape your own website every day in the middle of the night when traffic is low, and make that available. They can come and collect it every day if they want to.

	▲	mips_avatar an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah. Though I guess the point I thought of was like a deals site. That would have infinite pages and content