[Az-Geocaching] Suggestion for statistics

[Brian LaFrance]

Maybe we could figure out a way to distribute the workload across several
servers.  I also have a server that I could run the code on.  It may be
something where we could each query a range of cache numbers, user ID's, or
some other way of breaking the load up.  Not sure if that would help though.
We all may end up banned from scraping data off Geocaching.com...it could be
a fun project to try though.

Brian
Team AZEvil

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That's a good idea, in theory.  However, not every cacher can write code
like the Snaptek guys, nor can everyone understand how to run a script of
this nature.  If they gave me the code, I'd gladly throw it up on my server
to run, and all would be happy.  :)

Brian
Team A.I.
>
> From: Bob Renner <renner001@yahoo.com>
> Date: 2003/09/04 Thu PM 05:34:29 EDT
> To: Arizona Geocaching List <listserv@azgeocaching.com>
> Subject: [Az-Geocaching] Suggestion for statistics
>
> Jason,
>
> I realize this would be a total rewrite of your
> statistics gathering software, but it might be a way
> to lessen the load it puts on the geocaching.com
> website.  Instead of crawling the entire data base, go
> to the individual profile pages of Arizona geocachers,
> and get the information from the "User Stats" pages.
> Anyone who wants to have their information included
> into the AZgeocaching web page, would have to tell you
> to include them in your list.  You could still include
> the logs of others on the caches within Arizona.
>
> Another, approach would be for you to provide the code
> for Arizona geocachers to run on their own computers
> to get their basic information from geocaching.com and
> then automatically forward this to you to be compiled
> into one database.  The advantage of this would be
> that the load on geocaching.com would be from multiple
> IP addresses and only when a user knows his/her stats
> need to be updated (i.e. when they have found or
> placed a new cache).
>
> Just a thought that might help get around any blocking
> you are experiencing.
>
> Bob Renner
>
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