I have a technical/philosophical question about scraping of web pages for RSS feeds. You all helped me a while back in figuring out the use of HTML::TokeParser and XML::RSS to extract headlines and links from web pages. As far as I am concerned, scraping of a web page is the same as accessing a web page through a web browser... unless I am missing something... But I was talking to techies at a big corporation who manage web sites and they were telling me that they cringe whenever the word "scraping" is used, that it is like chalk on a blackboard to them... I didn't have the chance to pursue this with them, but it surprised me. So what is wrong with "scraping," or what are the disadvantages of it over other technologies? Aren't many of the RSS feeds out there as a result of scraping? Any insights appreciated.
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