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Title: Screen Scrape Rules Post by: metacoin on July 15, 2013, 03:11:47 PM If a bot were to scrape a thread for posts with a certain message in them, would this be against the rules of the forum?
Specifically the page would be downloaded once every 2-3 minutes at most, or whatever is acceptable. Simply wondering what the rules are regarding this. Title: Re: Screen Scrape Rules Post by: Vod on July 15, 2013, 03:15:46 PM If a bot were to scrape a thread for posts with a certain message in them, would this be against the rules of the forum? Specifically the page would be downloaded once every 2-3 minutes at most, or whatever is acceptable. Simply wondering what the rules are regarding this. I asked about this recently, and it is allowed, as long as you don't hammer the server with requests. Once every 2-3 minutes is fine. Title: Re: Screen Scrape Rules Post by: metacoin on July 15, 2013, 03:17:29 PM If a bot were to scrape a thread for posts with a certain message in them, would this be against the rules of the forum? Specifically the page would be downloaded once every 2-3 minutes at most, or whatever is acceptable. Simply wondering what the rules are regarding this. I asked about this recently, and it is allowed, as long as you don't hammer the server with requests. Once every 2-3 minutes is fine. Title: Re: Screen Scrape Rules Post by: 🏰 TradeFortress 🏰 on July 15, 2013, 03:18:45 PM Probably in PM. As someone who reads pretty much every meta post, haven't heard of a mention of that.
Slightly offtopic but I don't think it's worth it's own thread, how do I get a message given an ID? Title: Re: Screen Scrape Rules Post by: whiskers75 on July 15, 2013, 04:23:29 PM Probably in PM. As someone who reads pretty much every meta post, haven't heard of a mention of that. You need the topic ID as well:Slightly offtopic but I don't think it's worth it's own thread, how do I get a message given an ID? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=[topic id].msg[message id]#msg[message id] |