On 2/28/2011 10:21 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:

As somebody else has already said, if the site provides an API that
they want you to use you should do so rather than hammering their web
server with a screen-scraper.

If there any generic method for finding out 'if the site provides an API" and specifically, how to find Wikipedia's?

I looked as the Wikipedia articles on API and web services and did not find any mention of thiers (though there is one for Amazon).

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