Thanks for your input. I've heard of robots.txt files, but I've never dealt with them yet.

Unlike that monster on the White House web site, this one is rather small: 

User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /journals/EJDE/Monographs/
Disallow: /journals/EJDE/Volumes/

[download]

From what I read yesterday about robots.txt files, I'm OK, since I'm scraping the results of a search page that resides in a different directory.

But your advice about asking the webmaster about an appropriate delay is well taken, I'll see if I can contact him. I'm sure this is a quite capable server, since it's a service of the European Mathematical Society. Plus there are several mirrors.

But in general though, are you saying that even if I'm accessing high bandwidth servers, I should be using at least a two second delay?

TheEnigma

In reply to Re^4: Ethical issues with screen scraping by TheEnigma
in thread Use WWW::Mechanize to Download Pictures of Sayuri Anzu by Anonymous Monk

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