I don't think it's a good idea to scrape CDs unless you're planning to turn them into coasters or something to hang in trees to scare the squirrels away.
BUT PLEASE purge me from this email list! I have nothing to do with Debian support. On April 26, 2025 12:26:57 PM CDT, Steve McIntyre <[email protected]> wrote: >On Sat, Apr 26, 2025 at 03:25:53PM +0800, Connor Davis wrote: >>Hi, >> >>I was wondering if you allow web scraping on the CD part of the Debian >>website. >> >>I just wanted to check with you guys before scraping as I know it can be >>Disallowed and illegal. > >Please don't - if we find a lot of obvious scraping activity we will >ban IP addresses / netblocks. > >-- >Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] >The two hard things in computing: > * naming things > * cache invalidation > * off-by-one errors -- Stig Sandbeck Mathisen >
