[kw-pm] How was YAPC::CA?

[Daniel R. Allen]

> Daniel R. Allen wrote:

> > I could say a little about LWP, which is the World-Wide Web library for
> > Perl, useful for all sorts of screen-scraping.

On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, Stewart C. Russell wrote:

> as long as you keep within the terms of use for the content ...
>
>   Stewart
>
> (who works for probably the most screen-scraped company in the world)

Gee Stewart, I didn't realize that website content theft was a big issue
with the Toronto wind-turbine co-op...

Oh.  Probably a different company...

Seriously, though; you're right; and even if a site doesn't have an
explicit terms-of-use document, there are still copyright issues depending
on what you're doing with your screen-scraped pages.

Just goes to show how legit I've gone; I didn't even consider the negative
side of 'screen-scraping' when I wrote that.  My three most recent
contracts all involved legit screen-scraping; and last night when I
mentioned LWP, it was on my mind because I'm considering a little script
to simplify some repetitive actions with Mailman (which runs our mailing
list).

-Daniel

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