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

[Lady Sarah]

What he's saying is that he should be exempt from our rule of "no more than
250 results per set of criteria entered" rule because each new page is a new
query to the database and therefor a new search and the data can NOT be
scraped this way.

Is he telling me the truth? or has there just not been a hacker clever
enough to pull the data from their site yet?

Sarah

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On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Rick Scott <rick at shadowspar.dyndns.org>wrote:

> (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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