Re: screen scraping

From: Michael J. Giarlo <leftwing_at_nyob>
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2011 22:27:39 -0400
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
It's only illegal if you respect the authority of the HTTPolice*.

-Mike

* OCLC


On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 22:23, Nate Hill <nathanielhill_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> A question: what are the 'rules' around screen scraping?
> If one site doesn't offer an RSS feed and you want to grab (for example)
> their weekly top ten list with a script and then redisplay it on another
> site, is that bad form?  Or even illegal?
> Thanks-
> Nate
>
>
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Received on Sun Oct 02 2011 - 22:28:50 EDT