On occasion we’re asked to acquire data from a site that already offers an API. In almost all cases it’s going to be simpler to acquire data from a site by accessing an API as opposed to crawling. In theory, there should be no need to scrape data from a site if an API to the content is already made available. That said, there are a number of reasons why it still may make sense to scrape a site that also provides an API.
Version 7.0.14a of screen-scraper Released
Just released a new alpha version of screen-scraper. Here are the changes: Bug fix to datamanager awaitCompletionOfPendingWrites method that could cause it to permanently block. Addition of new HTTP callback event fire times. Fixed a data manager issue when building schemas with some newer mysql drivers. Added sutil.makeGETRequestRequired(String) that issues a request even if the … Read moreVersion 7.0.14a of screen-scraper Released