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+--- Thread: What makes a site easy to scrape? (I'm starting a site) (/showthread.php?tid=124795)
What makes a site easy to scrape? (I'm starting a site) - hrotti - 2012-03-06
I'm Icelandic and therefore a lot of my music doesn't scrape well. I've spent an awful lot of time on getting my audio library looking good, by manually creating artist posters and fanart. I don't have a clue about writing a scraper but figure I could do my part by uploading all my images and tagging etc. Then when I've got a reasonably large database i'd either try to modify an existing scraper or get some other Icelander to write a scraper.
So the question is: what would make a site easy to scrape?
- jmarshall - 2012-03-06
An API (i.e. a search interface that returns easily parsed results).
- darkscout - 2012-03-06
An API that returns JSON or XML.
- hrotti - 2012-03-06
thanks guys
- Martijn - 2012-03-06
Just a note you can share your covers/cdart on http://fannart.tv if they are also listed on http://musicbrainz.org/