Building a product right now but the data I need to make it as good as possible is protected. Specifically, I want to access all reviews from a restaurant review website (Google Reviews, Yelp, etc) but the apis for google and yelp only limit me to 5 and 3 reviews per restaurant respectively. Apparently scraping those reviews is illegal, what do I do? Should I build out a PoC and then negotiate a data partnership? Has anyone run into a similar issue? Would greatly appreciate any advice!<p>Seriously wish these guys just played nice and made data public, people can make such cool things with it. I get someone could make a better yelp with that data and compete, but that’s because a better yelp exists, right?
Start with what you can definitely use, the 5 and 3 reviews, and assume that's all you are ever going to be able to get out of these companies. Augment them with data from somewhere else, rethink your design to make it work.