[HN Gopher] Streetview scraper v1: cheap, arbitrary sized street...
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       Streetview scraper v1: cheap, arbitrary sized streetview images
        
       Author : efishnc
       Score  : 62 points
       Date   : 2024-01-29 12:52 UTC (10 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (loichovon.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (loichovon.com)
        
       | eigenvalue wrote:
       | The risk of getting banned by Google seems pretty catastrophic,
       | so I'd be pretty worried about using this. Even if you use a
       | "burner" Google account, who knows what they could do to link it
       | to your primary account.
        
       | xnx wrote:
       | I'm surprised this unauthorized method uses the API at all. Years
       | ago I animated a route with streetview images using crude browser
       | animation and screenshots.
        
         | KolmogorovComp wrote:
         | It looks like the V2 [0] is using the web client. Since it is
         | injecting additional JS code in the page, it can/could easily
         | be detected by google.
         | 
         | [0] https://loichovon.com/posts/streetview-scraper-v2.html
        
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