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user24 on Feb 7, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: What happened with LEGO

But it's not very polite to do (someone runs that website that you're hammering), and it doesn't open you up to a conversation that might get you even more access/data than you originally thought was accessible.

desas on Feb 7, 2013 [–]

You don't have to hammer a website to scrape it. You can write scraper programs to limit the number of HTTP requests per second.

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