How do you scrape websites that use services like Brassring?
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Brassring uses data taken from a database that seems a bit harder to scrape than by using the parameters of readLines and RCurl packages in R. What methods (preferably in R or Python) would you use to scrape it and could you please share your code?
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I wrote a distributed crawler for just these cases; it is open source cloud-crawler it is ruby
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