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[Webworldx]

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[Ðravu]

Jan 28, 2008 6:39:20 GMT -8 VS Admin said:

Jan 26, 2008 17:14:25 GMT -8 Ðravu said:

Actually, there is. You're viewing the ads when you go to copy and paste which I think is the reason the admins didn't like automatic source grabbing to get the information. Why are you explaining to me anyways? I wasn't the one who said you couldn't do it. I am happy it exists, but am not happy that you can do what you want while all other coders have to go by the unwritten TOS rules.

There's a huge difference between this and putting a code on your board to grab extra data.

If you added a code that grabbed information from another page from your board, you would then essentially be sending double the requests to our servers. Every single pageview becomes two.

In a system like this, he could load maybe 60 pages once a week and have a full database listing available for you to search with.

Patrick

So are you saying we CAN hit pages on PB as long as it's from an external server and the data gets stored there? I've had a couple of ideas that I wanted to code, but couldn't due to me thinking that information harvesting itself would be against the rules.

[Webworldx]

I *think* what Pat is trying to get at is... if you're hammering the server constantly then it's a no go. If it does something useless then it's also a nope. But if it's a cron job that runs once in a blue moon efficiently and does something people want, then go for it

[Ðravu]

Jan 28, 2008 10:46:06 GMT -8 Webworldx said:

I *think* what Pat is trying to get at is... if you're hammering the server constantly then it's a no go. If it does something useless then it's also a nope. But if it's a cron job that runs once in a blue moon efficiently and does something people want, then go for it

Thanks for the clearification. Good luck on the code.

[Anoop]

Oh. It is a nice code. Good Luck .

[Martyn Dale]

In the past all the requests to be allowed to do this kind of thing, relate to working on every page view, or most pageviews, for example getting subboard information.

In this case we are talking about not even 10 connections once a week, which is nothing, and no issue

[Ryan]

i say this should be stickied

[Webworldx]

I've done a further update on proboards.ifcode.com/ just to make it look a bit nicer removing the <font> tags around everyone's names, and clearing up Wonder's name for the index, as it doesn't seem to want to display special characters.

Should be a bit nicer to search on now, again if you want your name colored on the index and you've added more than 20 codes to it, give me a PM/message here and I'll do that

[Anoop]

You should make a login system for it, so users can add codes to their favorites ;P.

[frufru]

Hmm...

proboards.ifcode.com/index.php?letter=T

Howcome you have the old version of my table generator and not the new one?

[dmsuperman]

To answer a few questions, from what I seem to understand them as:

1: using file_get_contents() is crawling the site, that's how it works. Not sure who posted this, but that statement was wrong.
2: They have a problem with codes created for the users to use, meaning a JavaScript proboards code that would make an extra request to the server each time a forum user loaded a page. This would effectively double the bandwidth used by any forum implementing such a code. What the crawler does is make a few requests a week to the server, fewer than most actual users use in any given day, and stores the data on the remote server. This doesn't create any extra bandwidth, so it's fine.

[Ðravu]

Feb 24, 2008 12:40:58 GMT -8 dmsuperman said:

This doesn't create any extra bandwidth, so it's fine.

It creates very little bandwidth, but it still does. Otherwise, it wouldn't be grabbing anything.

[Ryan]

i vote this to be stickied

[Webworldx]

Feb 24, 2008 9:12:12 GMT -8 frufru said:

Hmm...

proboards.ifcode.com/index.php?letter=T

Howcome you have the old version of my table generator and not the new one?

As you've added [CB] infront of it (or someone has), it appears here: proboards.ifcode.com/index.php?letter=C

(search for it and it'd come up)

The next version will take out the CB's completely and sort them properly, it was something I noticed when I was updating

[Simie]

Jan 30, 2008 18:25:51 GMT -8 Martyn Dale said:

In the past all the requests to be allowed to do this kind of thing, relate to working on every page view, or most pageviews, for example getting subboard information.

In this case we are talking about not even 10 connections once a week, which is nothing, and no issue

So we are allowed to hit PB servers (As long as its not too much)? I asked about this in the support board months ago and said it wasn't allowed under any circumstances