The title is a little misleading IMHO. From reading the article it sounds like the term 'scraping' has been misused. Rather it seems like a static web catalogu

The title is a little misleading IMHO. From reading the article it sounds like the term 'scraping' has been misused. Rather it seems like a static web catalogue was downloaded and cloned once off using a website downloader. . The way we use web-scraping here on HN tends to be:: * frequently downloading * structural changes can be as important as data changes * often scraped on demand from a client request