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[Gnumed-devel] re robot drug finder


From: sjtan
Subject: [Gnumed-devel] re robot drug finder
Date: 04 May 2003 11:38:40 +1000

Looking at the site again, most of the information to navigate
their drug database is accessible via html source.

e.g. 
>From the html page showing the start letters for drug browsing
extract the hrefs for each letter.
Visiting the hrefs, there is a list of drugs, with information urls.
Since there are multiple pages per letter , visit each page and iterate
the drug visiting.

Basically it's visiting the entire web tree using a robot.
Seems to be stateless, but if there is a server log, they could get
cranky. 
Maybe some tool like wget can do it already, but as Ian said, that
may be stretching the legality.

 







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