title: Can page scraping be detected?
body: <p>So I just created an application that does page scraping for me, and ran it. It worked fine. I was wondering if someone would be able to figure out that the code was being page scraped, whether or not they had written code for that purpose?</p>
  
  <p>I wrote the code in java, and it's pretty much just checking for one line of the html code.</p>
  
  <p>I thought I'ld get some insight on that before I add anymore code to this program. I mean it's useful, and all, but it's almost like a hack.</p>
  
  <p>Seems like the worst case scenario as a result of this page scraper isn't too bad as I can just use another device later and the IP will be different. Also it might not matter in a month. The website seems to be getting quite a lot of web traffic anyways at the moment. Whoever edits the page is probably asleep now, and it really hasn't accomplished anything at this point so this could go unnoticed.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks for such fast responses. I think it might have gone unnoticed. All I did was copy a header, so just text. I guess that is probably similar to how browser copy-paste works. The page was just edited this morning, including the text I was trying to get. If they did notice anything, they haven't announced it, so all is good.</p>