Re: WWW::Mechanize and long links

Wouldn't what you are proposing against the Terms of the agreement where it mentions that you agree:

- not to use "Web spiders" or any other automated retrieval mechanisms when using the Service other than what is provided by the Service;

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Re: Re: WWW::Mechanize and long links by InfiniteSilence (Curate) on Nov 02, 2003 at 13:44 UTC
Well, your point about automated retrieval may be true but I think the 'spirit of the law' is that the rule is designated to keep people from hitting their servers too hard. Anyway, the reason I want to be able to do this is I really don't have the time to sit and read the books online, so I made some changes to the code in node 300762 (see my scratchpad) to be able to simply read the text. I then record the stuff onto tape and listen to it while driving. It would be nice if I could automatically load the next portion of text, trim the file to a suitable length to fit onto the tape, and have everything ready so that I could pop in a tape, hit record, and eat breakfast. Celebrate Intellectual Diversity	[reply]

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Re: Re: WWW::Mechanize and long links
by InfiniteSilence (Curate) on Nov 02, 2003 at 13:44 UTC

300762

It would be nice if I could automatically load the next portion of text, trim the file to a suitable length to fit onto the tape, and have everything ready so that I could pop in a tape, hit record, and eat breakfast.

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