[email protected] on 01 July 2005 at 17:54 +0000 wrote: >Screen scraping HTML is >in my opinion not good practice.
Agreed - but I wasn't scraping HTML - I was using the Google web service... and I think that makes it a different issue to the case of screenscraping...? For example, as the content was being provided from google in a 'raw' form by Google, presumably this carries the implication that the content will have to be republished somehow? Which is why I posted the query... ( the example was constructed solely to illustrate the question, rather than to be used in an app.) The use of the site:bbc.co.uk etc search switch is where part of the problem lies, I think. I'm not sure I can articulate at the moment the feeling I have that there is a difference between republishing general google results (which in a sense is publishing google's view of the world) and republishing the results from a single site. Perhaps an extreme workaround would be to say that site:whatever should be disabled in the google search api if the request is not coming *from* whatever? A bit like the borwser imposed security constraints on who you accept scripts from... But this is off-topic for the list... tony - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html.
