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Re:Preventing Site Scraping by joshu on Thursday May 17, 2012 @05:14PM (#3989133)
AJAXification could make it much easier. GET -> json import.
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Re:Preventing Site Scraping by paulgb on Thursday May 17, 2012 @06:45PM (#3989521)
Exactly what I was thinking. Heck, I've scraped using fake AJAX requests even when a legitimate API was available, simply because opening up firebug was faster than reading the API docs.
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Re:Preventing Site Scraping by jamesaguilar on Thursday May 17, 2012 @07:01PM (#3989568)
This is exactly what I used for my project to scrape Path of Exile item data.
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Re:Preventing Site Scraping by joshu on Thursday May 17, 2012 @07:26PM (#3989646)
Ha! I did the same for KoL once upon a time.
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