Pipet
Dev tools
web scraping cli
SHOW HN2024
49points
7comments
#1,307of 3,515 in 2024
Top 38%of 2024 by points
How HN took it
QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project
2 positive, 0 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 3 comments about the project.
Performance: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful for people who keep one-off scraping scripts
From 1 comment
Thus is great. Thanks for sharing. Sitting on a cache of one-off scripts as well. Looking forward to checking this out further.
itsbrex on HN
Positive reaction to the project
From 1 comment
Well done!
rotemtam on HN
Objections
Scraping needs advanced bot evasion such as real browsers and GPU-based human emulation
From 1 comment
That's all nonsense. If it's not imitating a real user by launching a real browser on a GPU and moving the mouse cursor with AI like a real human would, you could throw this…
cynicalsecurity on HN
Requests
Example of a site needing AI browser emulation to scrape
From 1 comment
The idea is that you run this from your personal computer, so I don't see any issues with the network really? Regarding the AI emulation browser in GPU - do you have an example…
yoavm on HN
Questions
Whether sites have advanced bot protection that the tool must handle
From 1 comment
Because every website has such an advanced protection?
moltar on HN