Instead of the user guessing what is allowed, this feature fetches the current robots.txt file from tabelog.com and displays a user-friendly dashboard.
For a site built on user contributions and openness, Tabelog’s robots.txt is remarkably closed. But that’s the point. In a market where restaurant data is a strategic asset (competitors include Google Maps, Retty, and Gurunavi), a robots.txt becomes a legal-engineering hybrid: “We’ve told you not to crawl these paths. If you do, you’re violating our terms and potentially the Unfair Competition Prevention Act of Japan.”
While robots.txt is technically a "gentleman’s agreement," ignoring these directives when scraping Tabelog can lead to:
Instead of the user guessing what is allowed, this feature fetches the current robots.txt file from tabelog.com and displays a user-friendly dashboard.
For a site built on user contributions and openness, Tabelog’s robots.txt is remarkably closed. But that’s the point. In a market where restaurant data is a strategic asset (competitors include Google Maps, Retty, and Gurunavi), a robots.txt becomes a legal-engineering hybrid: “We’ve told you not to crawl these paths. If you do, you’re violating our terms and potentially the Unfair Competition Prevention Act of Japan.”
While robots.txt is technically a "gentleman’s agreement," ignoring these directives when scraping Tabelog can lead to: