[GNC] Australian Stock Exchange Module in Finance::Quote

[Geoff]

This could be the end of the road.  The ASX web site and its APIs are 
now protected by Imperva's Incapsula software.  From my limited research 
it is extremely difficult to bypass this using tools like 
Finance::Quote, at least without using a commercial solution.

Why is it so difficult?  Good explanations here:
https://scrapfly.io/blog/how-to-bypass-imperva-incapsula-anti-scraping/
https://www.zenrows.com/blog/incapsula-bypass
https://webseekerj.medium.com/how-to-solve-imperva-incapsula-when-web-scraping-in-2024-complete-guide-383bd685b0e6

About Imperva:
https://www.imperva.com/incapsula-moved/


I'll have a play using Selenium (there's a Perl client) but I am not 
optimistic.

Any other suggestions most welcome.

Thanks

Geoff
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On 20/10/2024 1:42 pm, John Ralls wrote:
> I know we have a number of Australians here who have stock traded on the Australian Stock Exchange and use Finance::Quote.  Bruce called my attention today to https://github.com/finance-quote/finance-quote/issues/404 and that he intends to remove the ASX module from the next release. If any of you have the perl chops to take on finding a solution, now is the time.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> '
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