My policy: contact the library manager LM and ask for the pace to use. Even better: use library dumps or ask to periodically publish the data you need, so to be compliant with the 3rd star of the semantic web. This will avoid any scraping :-) No way to contact the LM? Try with a very slow pace, then reduce the delay while querying the opac itself, to see if its performance is affected by your scrape. Bye. Stefano
> On 25 Nov 2021, at 20:54, M Belvadi <mbelv...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, all. > > What do you all think about code that screenscapes (eg python's Beautiful > Soup) library opacs? > Is it ok to do? > Ok if it's throttled to a specific rate of hits per minute? > Ok, if throttled AND is a really big library system where the load might > not be relatively significant? > > Not entirely unrelated, is there an API for the new University of > California Library Search system? > > > Melissa Belvadi > mbelv...@gmail.com >
