> > > For 1D codes mbarcode will attempt a very basic webscrape of Amazon and > > > will (hopefully) return a title (rather than a segfault). For URLs > > > encoded in a QR code/datamatrix it will open the webbrowser and for > > > vCards it will add them to your contacts. > > > > Why is it necessary to do a "webscrape" of Amazon. Amazon has plenty > > of simple APIs for getting data freely and easily. The REST based ones > > are extremely simple and you get back an XML document with everything > > you need. > > It quite possibly isn't necessary, this is certainly not my area of > expertise, just something I wanted to get working ASAP. When I looked at > how to do this I found a mixture of web scraping tools and ones that use > Amazon Web Services. AFAIK AWS requires that you register to obtain a > key, and I'm not sure of the exact terms and conditions, but I presume > they will not want me to share my key, but I may be wrong about this.
Replying to myself, another option (which is the same one that Android Scan/CompareEverywhere uses) would be to move the "scraping" to a server. This might let me use a single key for all the queries (though it may still break the terms and conditions, I'd have to look) and would also reduce on-device processing and the amount of data that needs to be transferred. Or we could try hooking into the Android Scan/CompareEverywhere webservice ;) Any thoughts? Cheers, Simon _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
