Why are you ignoring their specific request and having a robot engage in exactly the kind of bulk download that they don't want you to do?

It is called netiquitte. If you have the knowledge to write the robot, you should also know when not to. And if you choose to ignore that, expect them to do things like block access from your IP address in self-defence. If you are doing this for an employer, please do some research on what robots.txt files are for and then tell your employer that there is a real risk of being banned from accessing pub med - should you really continue?

Update: I don't mean to imply that you are intentionally breaking the rules. Usually people just never realize that what they are doing is covered by robots.txt, which is why it is important to be proactive when the issue arises.

In reply to Re: speed up download for LWP::Simple by tilly
in thread speed up download for LWP::Simple by dannoura

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