On Jul 27, 2006, at 9:54 AM, Hal Kaplan wrote:
Everyone, to me this sounds like making a web service where one
does not
exist. Would that be an accurate statement?
Not really. It's using information from websites, but a web service
implies an interface: you request a certain piece of information in
an agreed-upon way, and that info is returned to you in an agreed-
upon way.
With screen-scraping, you're taking their normal web page and
parsing it to get the info you want. If they change their format it
can completely screw up the screen-scraping process, and since they
have no agreement with you to maintain a format, it is certainly
common for this to happen.
-- Ed Leafe
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