It’s been recommended by one of the moderators (who keeps closing my threads and doesn’t even give me a chance to respond to his advice) that scripts can be used to crawl the PSA site, as a workaround for getting out of stock notices because the PSA notification system doesn’t work as advertised. This seems to be condoned behavior because he points out that other people are doing it.
There was no advanced email that i am aware of. Some folks do use scripts and servers like discord that crawl the website in a manner similar to a search engine spider. That is all independent of the website, and is not in any way a part of PSA, H&R, or the website as a whole.
Web site scraping is a pretty aggressive means of getting price information. Doing that could be construed as a denial of service attack. The PSA site is known to use CloudFlare to discourage access by scripting. Before adopting such an aggressive measure suggested by one of the mods, I’d like to ask for official permission. I know that Guitar_Guy keeps answering that he doesn’t work for PSA and isn’t an official spokesman for PSA, so I would appreciate it if he would leave this thread open until someone with authority to speak for PSA has an opportunity to respond.
Thanks.