No one hates the modern web more than web scrapers, and unfortunately I have been coding those for like a decade and a half
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No one hates the modern web more than web scrapers, and unfortunately I have been coding those for like a decade and a half 16 comments
@unlofl@mstdn.social not accurate enough, would be more like
@unlofl Just gonna hang onto this for when my IT Department says the semantic HTML documentation I wrote for the so-called "shadow IT" projects they refused to do for me is too confusing and should be templated Word doc. @foone I'm maybe not noticing them. User-Agent sniffing is fairly easy to automate my way out of, by faking user-agent strings, special sentinel headers or cookies can take a bit more thought; but if it's designed to be on the public internet; I feel like scraping has never been easier. React et-al mangling classes is a bit more awful for me. @foone@digipres.club Most "modern web" developers (or rather, their bosses) consider this a feature. |
@foone That was the only thing I was ever good at coding in Python.