[Dxspider-support] QRZ.PL rewrite

[Ricardo Suarez]

I not interested in paid one cent of peso argentino ( ! ) for information 
about me, and every user can think in the same way.

I not understand why the users of one great piece of open source software 
like DXSpider, are forced to pay for use one database about radio amateurs, 
and not understand why Dirk need to waste time in rewrite an open source 
interface to one privative database.


I say NO to the use of qrz.com's xml interface if I need to pay for it.

Rick LU9DA


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dirk Koopman G1TLH" <gb7tlh at dxcluster.org>
To: "The DXSpider Support list" <dxspider-support at dxcluster.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 06, 2009 6:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Dxspider-support] QRZ.PL rewrite


Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
> On 9/6/2009 6:28 AM, Ricardo Suarez wrote:
>
>> Good job, but is a secure waste of time, the owner of qrz.com NOT want
>> us as users, he wants us as readers of commercial announces, non better
>> demonstration of this the aleatory lines added on the qrz web page. For
>> this cause I run on my new approach to solve the cluster´s dx 
>> information.
>
> Have you looked into the XML lookup?  It requires a username/password, but 
> you get XML output which can be easily parsed, not ads!
>
> 73 - Jim AD1C
>

I have a "license" to use this XML interface. For various reasons (which
is partly to do with lack of time and partly because of one aspect of
the API) I have not rewritten sh/qsl to use it.

There is also the small matter of a suspicion (and it is, currently, no
more than that) that we are being treated differently to sysops of other
software, in that (I think) we will have to pay the subscription to his
xml service, where as (I am given to understand) they don't.

I would be open to changing sh/qsl to using the XML interface, if there
is any interest.

Dirk G1TLH





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