[SLUG] Blind numbers

[john at johnallsopp.co.uk]

That's the site I screen scraped and it does change format. Not a lot,
but just enough to keep you on your toes. It makes sense, they don't
want you to screen scrape, they want you to pay for the information.

I do believe their terms and conditions of use forbid screen scraping
too.

J

> Going back to screen-scraping. It occurred to me the best place to
> probably look would be the LSE website itself, as, to be honest, it is
> unlikely to regularly change layout.
>
> http://www.londonstockexchange.com/en-gb/pricesnews/prices/Trigger/genericsearch.htm?bsg=true&ns=MKS
>
> Links appear to be simple for Ticker codes and so I think
> screen-scraping could be realistic here as I did struggle to find a
> web-service that did UK stock prices.
>
> Cheers,
> Mike
>
> On 4/11/06, Stephen O'Neill <soneill84 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> john at johnallsopp.co.uk wrote:
>> > Steve's idea of using Web Services is probably better,
>>
>> Web services are clearly designed for precisely this kind of
>> activity.
>> However I'm not sure how great support is for the LSE etc as most
>> are
>> more US oriented.
>>
>> A cursory look at the google api as an alternative indicates that
>> they
>> focus on lookups from US indices, not UK.
>>
>> BBC don't RSS their market prices which would have been another
>> alternative.
>>
>> Hats off to all your screen scrapers though - that takes patience!
>>
>> Steve O
>>
>>
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