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Make your data accessible or you’re fired

by zurawiki on 10/22/18, 8:18 PM with 2 comments

• by corybrown on 10/22/18, 8:29 PM

  Web scraping is such an underappreciated art. Unfortunately, it's harder and harder to do little hobby projects since many sites will quickly ban you.

  I was working on a music project, trying to use Rate Your Music as the data source. Got banned before even hitting 50 requests (less than one a minute). I should have checked their TOS first ...