stealth screen scraping with python?

[Thomas Wittek]

different.engine at gmail.com schrieb:
> I am screen scraping a large volume of data from Yahoo Finance each
> evening, and parsing with Beautiful Soup.
> 
> I was wondering if anyone could give me some pointers on how to make
> it less obvious to Yahoo that this is what I am doing, as I fear that
> they probably monitor for this type of activity, and will soon ban my
> IP.

Use anonymizing proxies:
http://www.google.com/search?q=proxies+OR+proxy+anonymous+OR+anonymizing

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Thomas Wittek
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