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Originally Posted by miscreationist  Yeah, I guess you are right. That is what has been done thus far is to send C&Ds. But I figured they'd go to account banning before that if you were automating the extraction of data and they didn't like it. The only reason I had not taken an interest thus far was to avoid getting my account removed for automating access to it - something I'd not like to happen if I'd paid for an extended amount of access to DDI.
Thanks for bringing up the topic. Hopefully, this is a good step and as I said, I look forward to the upcoming article about it. |
It's worth noting that I don't actually get access to any data behind the paywall... All I'm getting is the search results anyone can find, and the links anyone can find.
I can send you to the page, but you still need to log yourself in.
Now, theoretically it would be possible to log in and scrape the database (and, indeed, I've been in contact with people who have claimed to have done just that in months prior), but that doesn't require the API at all.
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