Access to database other web sites

[John J. Lee]

claird at lairds.com (Cameron Laird) writes:

> In article <87n0crbi8z.fsf at pobox.com>, John J. Lee <jjl at pobox.com> wrote:
> >tibi87 at hanmail.net (Jenny) writes:
[...]
> I'm ... reserved about the prospects for the proposed research.  The commercial
> sites you want to study are, in my experience, some of the most difficult to
> "scrape".

Which (ATM, anyway) is a good reason for doing it with browser automation.


> Complementing that difficulty is the poverty of inference I antici-
> pate you'll be able to ground on what you find there; their commerce has a lot
> more noise than signal, as I see it.

What do you mean 'their commerce has more noise than signal'?


> 'Twould be great, though, for you to
> uncover something real.  Good luck.

What I was wondering was where the sales data are going to come from.


John