Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 11:40 pm
Meh, someone give me a reason not to trash this whole thread. Whole thing is just a mess of half-wrongs that'll confuse anyone who actually wants useful answers on anything related to making a decent client.
What's with this use of the word gestalt? Its completely inconsistant with any of the established meanings in either german or english - some fringe ITbabble term? Seriously, if you start talking about monads next I'll petition to ban you for perversion.
At any rate, keeping a synced copy of any of the large parts of anidb was what I was refering to as "essentially not practical", because #1 you can't re-get everything every time anything changes, #2 there is no commit log, #3 you can't limit changes to only the routes you control (Chii can make changes to mylists that the UDP api will know nothing about, for instance).
All this talk about scraping mylist pages is crap though, when you can just get a clean dump in one of several flavours.
I do love breaking scrapers though...
Rar
What's with this use of the word gestalt? Its completely inconsistant with any of the established meanings in either german or english - some fringe ITbabble term? Seriously, if you start talking about monads next I'll petition to ban you for perversion.
At any rate, keeping a synced copy of any of the large parts of anidb was what I was refering to as "essentially not practical", because #1 you can't re-get everything every time anything changes, #2 there is no commit log, #3 you can't limit changes to only the routes you control (Chii can make changes to mylists that the UDP api will know nothing about, for instance).
All this talk about scraping mylist pages is crap though, when you can just get a clean dump in one of several flavours.
I do love breaking scrapers though...
Rar