Suggestion: Crawling API

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Sérgio Nunes

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May 27, 2008, 9:13:43 PM5/27/08
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Hi,

I would like to suggest the support of a Crawling API in Google App
Engine.
It would really bring Google's top expertise to developers.

Thanks for listening,
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Sérgio Nunes

Filip

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May 29, 2008, 1:04:46 AM5/29/08
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Hi Sergio,

Could you expand on what you'd like to do with that? Even if there was
background processing, and you could buy more quota, crawling would
take enormous CPU time and hence be extremely expensive to do.

Filip

Patrick Boyd

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May 29, 2008, 4:40:38 AM5/29/08
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I think you'd be better off using wget or rolling something more
powerful in python (or nutch) on your home machine or EC2. What
problems are you running into with crawling that could be helped by an
API?
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