Don't listen to @Zypher, he has bit-pushing duty this week and is just lazy...

@balpha so helpful (:

@Zypher Understood... and I'll be very careful not to cross any lines. At the moment this is just an experiment.

@Fosco, just wait until @Zypher is distracted on the podcast (:

@RebeccaChernoff you underestimate my powers of multi tasking

@Fosco just the possibilty und certain circumstances of the ability to confirm or deny -- note the "would" :)

@Fosco see if the data dump has what you need before scraping

@balpha NO MORE BITS FOR YOU

@balpha let me rephrase carefully... May I please get a straight answer whether that is the only required cookie or not?

yes, you may

chuckles

Hahahahahahaha

type-to-find on the user and tag pages is the only time I've needed use my mouse on SE today. need to hook into that.

You're a corporate professional, @balpha... I like the cut of your gib.

in theory, that's all you need -- in practice, you may run into issues if the same session is active in two places (i.e. you keep surfing while your app does whatever it does)

@RebeccaChernoff havn't tried to go to the mod pages huh?

I have

@Zypher this is all in reference to a chat with pekka:

@balpha Thanks.

@Zypher not all of them, but the dashboard page with flags I've been on today.

hmm how'd you get there

MAGIC

also I forked the code >_<

well damnit

that is not helping me

@balpha rescind her fork

speaking of forks

@Zypher bitbucket.org/rchern/se-keyboard-shortcuts/changeset/…

hmmm

@Zypher

This would be about fetching individual pages, one by one, maybe one a day

That would not really be a problem, would it?

It is only about those few deleted questions that are really cool, after all.

Maybe a few dozen, maybe a hundred, but not much more than that

They give up on the podcast chatroom? I don't see one.

Oh right... Three chat sites. Brain fart.

I checked meta and SO O_o.

@Zypher you still hanging about?

Ah ha :P

I imagine not since he's on the podcast, but.

Hmmm...4.5 hours to go...my plan to fix my sleep schedule may have hit a snag.

@jcolebrand was doing the podcast

Aye, comms room I OBd a post that needs to be remigrated to Stack Overflow

that one

@EatmoreTwisters Possibly not at that level, just make sure you have a real useragent set, use gzip and are generally a good bot. I'd still check to see if the data dumps have what you need first though the data dumps

@jcolebrand looks like Chopper took care of it

Why do people send me images in word documents? stab

Someone was showing me a screenshot of an email that was posted to a wiki yesterday.

Er, yesterday/last week, same thing.

I get "Can you help me with this query?" screenshots of SSMS on a regular basis.

You would think someone using SSMS would know better.

You would be wrong.

Yeah...