Wednesday, June 2, 2010

QRZ.COM Web Parser Limitations

Writing a web page parser for QRZ.COM recently became harder because you have to log in to see the more detailed information about operator location etc.

That's probably why Ham Radio Deluxe and other programs announced that they'll
stop supporting their QRZ.COM web page parser and instead use only
the QRZ.COM XML interface.

Good news: The interface allows name and country lookup for every
QRZ.COM user.

Bad news: Have to be registered. That's free, but means that all lookups
are traced to your user ID.
For the full information (grid, location, license info, ...) you have
to be a subscribed user, about $25 per year.

May not be that much money considering that QRZ.COM must have considerable
costs for keeping the page running.

Anyway, XML format detail is currently here:

Another option might be the FCC ULS data, access to which is described here:

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