Re: PerlMonks mirror with RSS and searching

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Re^2: PerlMonks mirror with RSS and searching by jdporter (Paladin) on Oct 04, 2006 at 14:40 UTC
He's ignoring `robots.txt`, of course.	[reply]
Re^2: PerlMonks mirror with RSS and searching by aufflick (Deacon) on Oct 05, 2006 at 05:29 UTC
there used to be a static mirror of perlmonks specifically for search engines. Searching google for my username plus perlmonks yields results like: http://qs321.pair.com/~monkads/?node_id=388544 but it seems that that is now forbidden/down/whatever.	[reply]
Re^2: PerlMonks mirror with RSS and searching by EvdB (Deacon) on Oct 05, 2006 at 07:45 UTC
Hmm. Ignoring robots.txt is a bit to strong - I'd prefer to say that I was sticking to the spirit if not the letter of it. The aim of the entry is to stop perlmonks being repeatably scraped by lots of robots. I only scrape the XML bit of the page and cache the results so that I never need to scrape the same page twice. I also have code in place that prevents scraping too fast. Hopefully the result of the RSS feeds will be to reduce the traffic that hits perlmonks just to see what is new.	[reply]