On Fri, 11 May 2007 12:32:55 -0700, different.engine wrote: > Folks: > > I am screen scraping a large volume of data from Yahoo Finance each > evening, and parsing with Beautiful Soup. > > I was wondering if anyone could give me some pointers on how to make > it less obvious to Yahoo that this is what I am doing, as I fear that > they probably monitor for this type of activity, and will soon ban my > IP.
Write a virus to hijack tens of thousands of Windows PCs around the world, and use your army of zombie-PCs to do the screen scraping for you. Each one only needs to scrape a small amount of data, and Yahoo will have no way of telling that it is you. *wink* -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
