MythTV changes.

Scott Allen scotta-cpI+UMyWUv9BDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org
Sat Jun 23 11:04:18 UTC 2007


On Fri Jun 22,2007 03:26:10 PM Colin McGregor wrote:
> Block it how? Change the web page layout every few
> days would be about the only way (i.e.: change faster
> than the scraper program can adapt...). The scraper
> software could make itself look like just about any
> web browser and play all sorts of games to get the
> data off a website... :-) .

Make each page just a big image mapped GIF. The scraper would have to 
use OCR to extract the text. Using certain backgrounds would make the 
text easy to read with your eyes but difficult for OCR.


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