| ▲ | Jskewel an hour ago | |
Impossible. The majority of websites firewall automated crawler traffic (because of the rise of the bots), only making exceptions for the largest search engines. There is no possibility of starting a new crawler. | ||
| ▲ | mitxela 25 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | |
The majority of websites try to do that but they do not catch as much traffic as they think they do. A starting point for a scraper is to run it on your home connection in an undetectable web driver framework such as zendriver. | ||
| ▲ | Cakez0r 29 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | |
It would be interesting to see a decentralised, residential collective that builds and publishes an index. There are surely enough interested people on HN alone that would be willing to run software at home to scrape a small slice of the internet. | ||