ethics of screenscraping library opacs?

From: M Belvadi <mbelvadi_at_nyob>
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2021 15:54:06 -0400
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Hi, all.

What do you all think about code that screenscapes (eg python's Beautiful
Soup) library opacs?
Is it ok to do?
Ok if it's throttled to a specific rate of hits per minute?
Ok, if throttled AND is a really big library system where the load might
not be relatively significant?

Not entirely unrelated, is there an API for the new University of
California Library Search system?


Melissa Belvadi
mbelvadi_at_gmail.com
Received on Thu Nov 25 2021 - 14:45:29 EST