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Why do you wish to accomplish this task?

If you need to do it for personal interest, go right ahead. If you need to do this for your employer, these sites have licenses which say that you can't. To get this information (legally) you generally need to buy it from someone.

While Perl can do many things, it cannot make what is illegal magically legal.

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Re: Re: Newbie to PERL curious about what it can do
by waswas-fng (Curate) on Apr 05, 2003 at 16:32 UTC
    I would say that scraping a site for your own use is usually 'ok' -- you are just using a different app to expose the view. If he were to use the data and export to other people, that may cross the line depending on the copyright notice or Terms of the site. either way he did not give enough information in his post to lead me to beleave he was

    -Waswas
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