Awesome progress on the app!
I wanted to throw out an idea given the $$ involved with accessing the data in raw form. I think a great service that could come out of this work would be a RESTful API that allowed other developers to access the data without having to jump through the hoops that you are.
It may not fall near the top of the priority list. However, I suspect somewhere you have a getMeDude() method that fetches from the GAB site. Let's just create a handler that makes that call.
Food for thought.