http://www.perlmonks.org?node_id=459090

I wish to download a large volume of post bodies from PM.

My thought is to do this via the displaytype=xml;node_id=nnnnnn interface, probably early hours on Sunday morning.

  • Is this acceptable?
  • Is there a prefered time (GMT)?
  • At what rate may I make the pulls without having undue impact upon the site?
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