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Introduction to writing spiders and agents |
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Advice and warnings | ||
1. | Observe other people's intellectual property rights | |
2. | Adhere to web site's usage policies | |
They can block your IP address forever | ||
Don't spider eBay or Yahoo! | ||
3. | DNS Registries only allow a limited number of requests from a single IP address in a given day | |
(or so I'm told) | ||
4. | Be responsible... | |
Don't write spiders that collect email addresses for spam mailers | ||
Don't write DOS (Denial of Service) agents |