Sure, good point, let me clarify, though please keep in mind that I'm not a lawyer...
According to the Google Wave terms of use, it is not permitted to "modify, adapt, translate, or reverse engineer any portion of the Service unless expressly authorized". In Oliver's prototype, he essentially reverse engineered the client display mechanism to extract the content. You can read more of the policies at: http://wave.google.com/help/wave/program_policies.html Once we have an API to let you programmatically extract the content -- which is something we're working on -- then that API could be used to build this prototype without having to reverse engineer. Another thing to consider, more in the wave protocol effort, would be a client/server protocol -- but things are early there at the moment. - pamela On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Joe Developer <[email protected]>wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 7:42 AM, pamela (Google Employee) < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hey Oliver- >> I responded to you offline, but will also respond here to keep the thread >> in the forum. >> >> I assumed that was how you were doing this, but wanted to give you a >> chance to explain. It is generally considered illegal to "scrape" the HTML >> of webpages that do not grant explicit permission for that. That is why >> webpages provide APIs- so that developers can legally use content. >> >> Really? Generally considered illegal? I would appreciate a link that > documents such a finding. I would imagine that google search results would > be fairly sparsely populated if they could only include those pages that > include explicit permission for google to scrape. > > I would advise on waiting until we offer some sort of Google data API to >> distribute a program like this. >> >> - pamela >> >> >> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Oliver Baker <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> How dare you Andrey! >>> >>> I do not store any of your information what so ever excluding the last >>> Wave server you selected. >>> >>> Any Login information you enter is immediatly put into the Google Wave >>> Login page to log the application into the Google Wave login page. >>> >>> To enter your login details on Version 2 (Sorry I made this a little >>> stupidly) you will need to left click on the Notify Icon or right >>> click the icon, go into the Waves item, then click the login to see >>> your waves button. >>> >>> Also, make sure you have Google Chrome Frame installed on your >>> computer for this to work. I am still working out the bugs. >>> >>> On Oct 14, 10:07 am, Andrey Fedorov <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > Uhoh, I hope you guys are at least running antivirus as you run exe's >>> you >>> > downloaded online? >>> > - Andrey >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Scott Breakall <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> > >>> > > I've downloaded the exe, but am I missing something? There's nowhere >>> > > for me to enter my wave credentials? >>> > >>> > > ~Scott~ >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Wave API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-wave-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
