> > For 1D codes mbarcode will attempt a very basic webscrape of Amazon and > > will (hopefully) return a title (rather than a segfault). For URLs > > encoded in a QR code/datamatrix it will open the webbrowser and for > > vCards it will add them to your contacts. > > Why is it necessary to do a "webscrape" of Amazon. Amazon has plenty > of simple APIs for getting data freely and easily. The REST based ones > are extremely simple and you get back an XML document with everything > you need.
It quite possibly isn't necessary, this is certainly not my area of expertise, just something I wanted to get working ASAP. When I looked at how to do this I found a mixture of web scraping tools and ones that use Amazon Web Services. AFAIK AWS requires that you register to obtain a key, and I'm not sure of the exact terms and conditions, but I presume they will not want me to share my key, but I may be wrong about this. I guess you're also talking about AWS? What is your take on the key issues - share mine, or get each user to register themselves and get a key? Perhaps the registration could be automated. Any thoughts? Patches welcome of course. Cheers, Simon _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
