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clone online database

i play a facebook game, and there is a 3rd party database of players, giving various stats of over 100k of them. Is there a simple way to grab ALL the data? ideally clone it so it would be accessable even if the owner lost his hosting/took it down?
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  • the182guy
    the182guy Posts: 1,018
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    Got a link to an example of the data? Can you access chunks of records or just one at a time? Most likely won't be a one click solution, will likely need program to screenscrape the data.

    The legality might be questionable there even if the data is in the public domain.
  • victor2
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    If there is a way to effectively step through all the data on screen, then you possibly could use a programme to do that, capture all the data, and use it to create a new database of the information. It would be a poorly built database if you could just grab it in its entirety, assuming the game had no requirement for you ro do that.

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