Is page scraping a good practice?
[267 byte] By [jigza] at [2007-10-3 10:14:06] 
I need live/delayed stock market prices for my project.Some people suggested scrapping pages from yahoo finance etc butIs it a good practice? or is there an alternative to it aprat from paid subcription?thanks fo rur help in advace!
If you can get the stock market pricing by RSS, perhaps no scraping is necessary. Apatar http://www.apatar.com, is an open source ETL tool for mashup data integration, can read and parse RSS feeds, and move data into your database. Apatar supports MySQL, Oracle, MS SQL and a bunch of other databases, file formats and applications such as WevDAV and Salesforce.com. Apatar has a built-in scheduling app and can fetch data from your RSS feed as often as every minute. Try to download Apatar and parse your Yahoo RSS feed to see if it helps.
GaryBenneta at 2007-7-15 5:34:35 >
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