[penguicon-general] anyone out there know....??

[Rick Scott]

(Lady Sarah:)
> What is up is that I have a programmer telling me that the way
> this language works it has rendered the data (of ours) that they
> are displaying on their website effectively "unscrapeable" and I
> need a verification on that.  Do you know if this is true?

If you're using AJAX (a programming technique using javascript, not
a language unto itself) to render data, it can make it more difficult
to scrape because most site scraping tools don't implement javascript.
I wouldn't say it's impossible, though.

What exactly is this programmer saying?  That the data they need has
been rendered unscrapeable and that's problematic because they need to
retrieve it that way?  Or are they making a security claim -- that they're 
displaying some data and because they're using AJAX to do so it's 
unscrapeable?




Cheers,
Rick
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