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web scraping api
SHOW HN2018
124points
22comments
#342of 2,155 in 2018
Top 16%of 2018 by points
How HN took it
LovedMost comments that take a side are positive
4 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 12 comments about the project. Thread score +0.28.
Idea: 1 for, 0 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Great name and project
From 3 comments
Awesome name, awesome project!
VMG on HNGreat project! I can imagine this may greatly improve web certain classes of scraping. @gavino I'm curious what tooling and architecture you used to put this together?
conceptpad on HNGive this man an internet.
powerslacker on HN
waitForSelector feature is cool
From 1 comment
I've previously written a very similar project called "graphql-scraper" (which is arguably a far less cool name...), you can check it out at…
lachenmayer on HN
Objections
Unclear how it handles throttling or captchas
From 1 comment
Not sure what to make of this. How does it handle throttling or captchas?
nurettin on HN
Page not loading in Materialistic Android reader
From 1 comment
Page isn't loading in Materialistic (HN reader on Android/F-Droid repo), but: do you have this exact verbiage on it? It's very concise!
acct1771 on HN
Requests
Help selecting table td by nth selector
From 1 comment
I've been looking for something like this! I'm trying to play around with it but can't seem to get the selector right. How do I grab a table `td` by its nth selector (tried…
pdxandi on HN
Swap cheerio for a remote browser
From 1 comment
Are you planning to build anything on top of this - service,company? I was thinking it would be a good way to build an api for some projects I've been thinking of working on,…
bryanrasmussen on HN
Questions
What are the use cases?
From 1 comment
Sorry a dumb question. What are the use cases ? Thx
jarjar12 on HN
How does it handle throttling or captchas?
From 1 comment
Not sure what to make of this. How does it handle throttling or captchas?
nurettin on HN
Alternatives named
graphql-scraper
From 1 comment
I've previously written a very similar project called "graphql-scraper" (which is arguably a far less cool name...), you can check it out at…
lachenmayer on HN
GDOM
From 2 comments
Nice! There is also similar project GDOM - https://github.com/syrusakbary/gdom written in Python.
maio on HNI remember seeing GDOM a while back when I first started this project, but forgot to write it down as a source of inspiration. I'm gonna add all of these as alternatives, because…
gavino on HN
Yahoo Pipes
From 1 comment
You're probably thinking about Yahoo Pipes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Pipes
pnevares on HN