[SLUG] Blind numbers

[Mike Bennett]

Ah right. Thanks for that, will save me the bother of writing a
screen-scraping program. I read the disclaimer and it looks like you
are only prevented from screen-scraping if you are using it for
commercial purposes.

I'll keep investigating,
Mike

On 4/11/06, john at johnallsopp.co.uk <john at johnallsopp.co.uk> wrote:
> 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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