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Old 08-14-2026, 04:27 PM   #18
vasbinde
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Originally Posted by sgmoore View Post
I have to be honest and say I am not sure it would be 'worth' it.
I don't find a new 'favourite' author very often and my current favourites don't release a new book every week or month, so I don't like the idea of a process continually running (and using up memory) all the time.



You do realise that one of the things anti-scanning bots do is look to see if you are running a headless browser. How do you get around that?
There are certain "stealth" techniques that can help a little. That said, I would LOVE to have a normalized, API accessible list of Author ebooks, with book language, Title, Series, etc. all enumerated and available either free of charge or for a nominal fee. That would make this process a LOT easier and avoid the screen scraping entirely.
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