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Old Nov 4, 2014 | 8:30 pm
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Originally Posted by KVS
We do make it clear that the KVS Tool is a Specialized Web Browser application. We do not have "a tool that scrapes the data" and we have no intention of creating one.
Nonsense. You are taking the response from the websites and extracting data from it, discarding the site's markup and displaying only the desired data in your own format. That is the very definition of web scraping. Granted, this only occurs every time a user hits the search button, unlike plenty of other scraping applications that collect far more data in a more automated/repetitive fashion. But it is most certainly scraping nonetheless.
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