Is this impossible or just difficult to do?

Discussion in 'Programming' started by Omar_Khan, Aug 11, 2009.

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    Hello,

    I don't know if you all have been to www.bing-vs-google.com but if you search for something, the results provide a side-by-side presentation of the results.

    Now I want to do that with a a group of other sites. I don't need the whole website and the results page compared, just the results. I've made a blue print of what I am trying to do:

    ShopperGeek.com/demo


    Now these 5 sites have API and data-feed programs but I am not a part of them (nor can I be).



    Is it possible to integrate or access the databases of these 5 sites without being an affiliate and having access to their affiliate/API/data resources.

    I am not concerned with earning affiliate commissions, I simply want to have access to these 5 sites and provide my users with that service.

    I had a programmer who claimed he could do it but then told me he couldn't.




    Is this impossible or simply difficult?

    I would appreciate some answers and advice.


    Thanks,
    Omar
     
    Omar_Khan, Aug 11, 2009 IP
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    Well, it's possible, if you scrape their site HTML and then extract the data you need.

    However, it'd be much better if you somehow got access to their api because once you start doing the scraping, and if you're getting lots of visitors, someone will notice and might ban you from their servers.
     
    premiumscripts, Aug 12, 2009 IP