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Simon Willison

Scraping data by taking a screenshot of a dashboard and then running it through a vision model is both slightly absurd and potentially quite a robust way of accessing data that's otherwise impossible to extract!

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Daniel

@simon Maybe that's a way to finally have editors autocomplete based on the documentation the browser shows right there in a second window? 🦧💡

Phil Nelson

@simon Have done this with stats from video game sports titles

Badibulgator

@simon For additional Rube Goldberg bonus points, use a camera to take a picture of the screen when the dashboard somehow prevents taking screenshots…

Ahnenfunde

@simon Depending on the dashboard, #KeyboardMaestro could do the trick.

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