Code Fudging

The practice of fudging code in an unfamiliar language until it Just Works 
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Fear the Google 403s

Lesson #1 for scraping results from Google's search results - don't over do it.

After mining out some information, my Ruby script seems to be permanently banned. Not that I particularly blame them, even with a generous 10 second pause.

Must send user agent info next time.

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