Importing Data from Dictionary Web site

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hello,

I need to translate a group of words from a free online dictionary, so I wrote a simple program in C# to send http requests, and then parse returned HTML to extract the meanings.

However, the free web site stops after 130 requests, asking for manual entering of words as in image (capatcha) in order to continue. how can i over come this problem?

Thanks,
Samer

Posted 20-Jul-12 1:17am

samer.m.zain

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Sandeep Mewara · Answer 1 · 2012-07-20T01:29:00

You cannot overcome this.

This is a security step included by the 'free website' to avoid bots hitting the website continuously and overload it for no reason.

Only possible way, you write a code to read captcha automatically via code and then use the reading without manual intervention.

samer.m.zain · Answer 2 · 2012-07-25T01:43:00

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i just added delays between requests, and that is it!

Posted 25-Jul-12 1:43am

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Richard MacCutchan 25-Jul-12 11:10am

You really should not be doing this, it is, if not illegal, then probably immoral. If you wish to make such use of some company's free tools you should get permission from them first.

samer.m.zain 25-Jul-12 17:04pm

yes i can see your point, however, it is just a couple of hundred of words, nothing heavy really. the whole operation ended in no time at all.