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hanzo · 6th November 2007, 16:09

While I haven't investigated this, so this may be overkill, but...

It is possible to "scrape" pages that display information, parsing out the data and making it usable. Some webmasters frown upon this, so coder beware.

Magnus · 6th November 2007, 16:13

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Originally Posted by hanzo

While I haven't investigated this, so this may be overkill, but...

It is possible to "scrape" pages that display information, parsing out the data and making it usable. Some webmasters frown upon this, so coder beware.

Add the ability to crawl between pages and sites, and you have a spammer's dream tool

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6th November 2007, 16:09	#11 (permalink)
hanzo Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Abu Dhabi Posts: 178	While I haven't investigated this, so this may be overkill, but... It is possible to "scrape" pages that display information, parsing out the data and making it usable. Some webmasters frown upon this, so coder beware.