I'm not sure if this is possible so.. can I run a new scrape on data while one is already being run (both in the workbench)? Do scrapes run through the server faster than the workbench?
Yes, you can run scraping sessions based on the results of other scrapes running in the workbench. In order to do this you would conditionally utilize the object com.screenscraper.scraper.RunnableScrapingSession and it's corresponding methods. For documentation on this please see the following.
Yes, running screen-scraper as a server vs. through the workbench does produce marked performance improvement. For our explanation of this and other optimization techniques please see the following.
Web Data Extraction
Running multiple scrape sessions..
Ryan,
Yes, you can run scraping sessions based on the results of other scrapes running in the workbench. In order to do this you would conditionally utilize the object com.screenscraper.scraper.RunnableScrapingSession and it's corresponding methods. For documentation on this please see the following.
http://www.screen-scraper.com/support/docs/api_documentation.php
Yes, running screen-scraper as a server vs. through the workbench does produce marked performance improvement. For our explanation of this and other optimization techniques please see the following.
http://www.screen-scraper.com/support/faq/faq.php#Optimizing
Thank you,
Scott