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figuringout

macrumors newbie
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Jun 27, 2010
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I was wondering how apps/websites which get data on recent price changes work? Freeappalert.com and the like. Do they track daily data on ALL the apps on the platform? That seems hard to do. If I wanted to do something how would I go about doing this? I'm guessing a scraper of some kind?
 
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