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Using Web Search results in being banned from Google Scholar #6331

@JosephRedfern

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@JosephRedfern

JabRef version: JabRef 5.0--2020-03-06--2e6f433

First off, thank you mainteners and contributors for spending time on JabRef. It's a really useful piece of software and I appreciate it.

I recently used JabRef's web search function against Google Scholar to find some references. I sucessfully imported 2-3, however soon afterward the tool stopped working. I then manually searched Google Scholar, only to be issued with a HTTP 403, and some reference to Google's terms of service:
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As there was no warning that this might happen, I consider it a bug. May I suggest that this tool come with a warning or be disabled by default?

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