Everyone loves the idea of scraping, no one likes maintaining scrapers that break once a week because the CSS or HTML changed.
I loved scraping until my ip was blocked for botting lol. I know there's ways around it it's just work though
I successfully scraped millions of Amazon product listings simply by routing through TOR and cycling the exit node every 10 seconds.
That's a good idea right there, I like that
Or in the case of wikipedia, every table on successive pages for sequential data is formatted differently.
I'm down with scraping, but "parses HTML with regex" has got me fucked up.
13 years ago my god. I wonder what Jon Skeet is doing these days.
I remember when he passed me in the reputation ranking back in the early days and thinking that I needed to be a little bit more active on the site to catch him lol.
Just a heads up for companies thinking it's wrong to scrap: if you don't want info to be scraped, don't put it on the internet.
The sad part is that scrapping is often easier then using the api.
Much less beholden to arbitrary rules also. Way too many times companies will just up and lift their API access or push through restrictions. No ty, I'll just access it myself then
I scrape with bash lord help me.
there's literally dozens of us!
or maybe just 2 idk
Hold on, I thought it was supposed to be realism on the virgin's behalf and ridiculous nonsense on the chad behalf:
All I see is realism on both sides lol
someone's never used a good api. like mastodon
I’ve just discovered selenium and my life has changed.
I created a shitty script (with ChatGPT's help) that uses Selenium and can dump a Confluence page from work, all its subpages and all linked Google Drive documents.
I used Twitter Scraper to get twitter data for my thesis. Shortly after, it became obsolete.
https://github.com/taspinar/twitterscraper/issues/368 rip twitter scraper
I wanted to build a Discord bot that would check NIST for new CVEs every 24 hours. But their API leaves quiiiiiiite a bit to be desired.
Their pages, however…
It’s all fun and games until you have to support all this shit and it breaks weekly!
That being said, I do miss the simplicity of maintaining selenium projects for work
I use scrapy. It has a steeper learning curve than other libraries, but it's totally worth it.
Let me introduce you to WooB (formerly WEBooB).
Why on earth would they have changed that. WEBooB is a way better name.
Ok then make a spotify scraper
Fuck, I think I've been doing it wrong and this meme gave me more things to learn than any YouTube video has
Let's see what WEI (if implemented ) will do with the scrapers. The future doesn't look promising.
My undergrad project was a scraper - there just wasn’t a name for it yet,
Scrapers have been a thing since the web exists.
One of the first search engines is even called WebCrawler
I have totally no idea what these are about..
Websites and services create APIs for programmers to use them. So Spotify has code that let's you build a program that can use its features. But you need a token they give you after you sign up. The token can be revoked and used to monitor how much of their service you're using. That way they can restrict if its too much.
Scraping is raw dogging the web slut you met at the cougar ranch who went home with you because you reminded her of her dog
This is the greatest definition for scraping I've ever read. You should have it bronzed.
'Scraping' is the process of anonymously and programmatically collecting data from a webpage(s), often without the website's permission and only limited to the content made publicly available. This is in contrast to using an API provided by the database owner which is limited by tokens, access volume, available end points etc.
How exactly do you make money scraping?
Imagine an investment firm looking at a property market. They need data like price trends in the surrounding area.
Real estate API is expensive, scraping is free. By hiring an employee the can save money.
ROFL, Chad only thinks that shit works
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