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jarelllama authored Apr 3, 2024
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Google provides a [Search API](https://developers.google.com/custom-search/v1/overview) to retrieve JSON-formatted results from Google Search. The script uses a list of search terms almost exclusively used in scam sites to retrieve domains. See the list of search terms here: [search_terms.csv](https://github.com/jarelllama/Scam-Blocklist/blob/main/config/search_terms.csv)
#### Effectiveness
Scam sites often do not have a long lifespan; malicious domains may be replaced before they can be manually reported. By programmatically searching Google using paragraphs from real-world scam sites, new domains can be added as soon as Google crawls the site. This requires no manual reporting.
Scam sites often do not have long lifespans; malicious domains may be replaced before they can be manually reported. By programmatically searching Google using paragraphs from real-world scam sites, new domains can be added as soon as Google crawls the site. This requires no manual reporting.
The list of search terms is proactively updated and is mostly sourced from investigating new scam site templates seen on [r/Scams](https://www.reddit.com/r/Scams/).
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