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You are writing a comment about An Introduction to Compassionate Screen Scraping, here is a quick summary:

One of the most common quickie projects on the web is to screenscrape a website and play around with its data. These projects are a lot of fun, and can allow for inventive mashups, but often the screepscraping scripts cause unnecessary load on the site's servers due to inconsiderate technique. This is an introduction to the art of compassionate screenscraping.

You are responding to this comment written by liftoff on October 26th 2009, 12:59.

thank you so much to be so thorough with your tut. what about compassionately screen scraping phone numbers - i can't find any site

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