Environmental Scan: Scrapers
To Clarify:
Similar to a spider, but with more interesting legal questions, is the Web scraper. A scraper is a type of spider that targets specific content from the Web, such as the cost of products or services. One use of the scraper is for competitive pricing, to identify the price of a given product to tailor your price or advertise it accordingly. A scraper can also aggregate data from a number of Web sources and provide that information to a user.{{ }}
Similar to a spider, but with more interesting legal questions, is the Web scraper. A scraper is a type of spider that targets specific content from the Web, such as the cost of products or services. One use of the scraper is for competitive pricing, to identify the price of a given product to tailor your price or advertise it accordingly. A scraper can also aggregate data from a number of Web sources and provide that information to a user.{{ }}
Further Exploration
The two web scrapers that I feel it worth doing additional exploration with are:
Testing Plan
Test Results
Scan List
Worthy of Study:
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-- ShawnDay - 6 Feb 2008