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Re: Peeron fight
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Wed, 17 Jan 2007 16:17:28 GMT
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On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 04:08:27PM +0000, David Eaton wrote:
> Where's it getting its data from? Is it slurping Peeron on the fly?
> Looks like it's slurping sets that it doesn't already have cached...
> And if it takes longer than 70 seconds pulling set data, it gives up.

Yes, it slurps the html pages and tries to parse them.  I won't comment
on what I think about parsing HTML ;)

--
Dan Boger
dan@peeron.com



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  Re: Peeron fight
 
Does Peeron have a public API, like an XML-based web service? (20 years ago, 17-Jan-07, to lugnet.db.inv)

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  Re: Peeron fight
 
(...) And the Peeron version allows you to specify parts that you own rather than just sets. So if you got some stuff at Pick-A-Brick or BrickLink, you have the option of acknowledging that you have it. Handy in terms of being able to pick your list (...) (20 years ago, 17-Jan-07, to lugnet.db.inv)

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