| From: | Jonathan Fuerth <fuerth(at)sqlpower(dot)ca> |
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| To: | Mike Ellsworth <younicycle(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: FreshMeat and SourceForge listings out of date again |
| Date: | 2009-04-03 17:44:34 |
| Message-ID: | d359a6a50904031044v383668a3o830072ed00ab811e@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Mike Ellsworth <younicycle(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> There are only a few a week - but http://downloads.com shows it hasn't
> been updated in > 1 year.
This turns out to be a tough site to scrape! Ironically, they probably
designed it with that in mind, but it's hurting them by making stale
content reminders more difficult to generate.
I think the best approach for download.com a.k.a. downloads.com a.k.a.
download.cnet.com would be to set up a single "official" account and
then check the "uploads by this user" page for a current version
number. There are already two such accounts, "Postgresql Community"
and "PostgreSQL Global Development." Each user has a profile page that
lists all their uploads, and that can be scraped easily enough.
Can anyone here claim ownership for one of the accounts I mentioned?
Anyone want to set up another one and let me know so that I can track
it?
-Jonathan
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