[throwaway2048]

Blocking scraping is the norm for Google, for instance the Public Youtube API allows you to view a grand total of 3 or so videos per key per day before it starts blocking you.

Google has basically got as bad as twitter in terms of giving a big middle finger to third party devs, but they have been smart enough to maintain a completely useless public/free tier for most things.

[acgan]

That makes sense. I'd hope that Scholar would be different, though.

A piece on how a researcher spent a summer filling out CAPTCHAs / scraping: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-04190-5

[buboard]

Scholar should be different, considering that they are the only ones in the world who are given access to everything