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OMG, what? Scraping data for offline processing, but certainly should not be for user-facing traffic. Cosmetic tweaks can blow up the scraper's parser, UI tech
by sad_panda 14y ago
OMG, what?
Scraping data for offline processing, but certainly should not be for user-facing traffic. Cosmetic tweaks can blow up the scraper's parser, UI technologies are built on a taller stack and are prone to higher latencies and points of failure, yada yada.
- puxedo 14y agoIndeed. Very risky. Scraping is not really a sustainable model when you need predictability. Too many variables.