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Re: Help With Online Table Scraperby Sinistral (Prior) |
| on Mar 02, 2011 at 14:28 UTC ( #890993=note: print w/ replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
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Before anyone starts talking about doing HTML scraping these days, it's always important to ask the question, "Is there a better way to do this?". The answer, direct from Yahoo, is yes, yes there is. Use web APIs, not HTML scraping (and YQL is your friend). This way, if Yahoo changes the syntax of their HTML (which can happen at a moment's notice), your tool will continue working.
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