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Show HN: A prototype of a new visual web scraper project
- motyar 8y agoLooks good. Got few questions:- How you are going to copy the style ( css ) ? Are you showing elements in iframe?
- motyar 8y agoBTW I have build something related, try it here:- http://motyar.info/webscrapemaster/try/?url=https://scrapy.apki.io/ http://motyar.info/webscrapemaster/try/?url=https://scrapy.a...
- pawurb 8y agoThat's meta :p
- pawurb 8y agoNo. These are static screenshots. I am not planning to make them interactive for now.
- ibdf 8y agoVery interesting approach. A static screenshot is nice if you are just trying to get a quick look at the data, but in your own example it's not useful as you couldn't click on individual items such as the top 5 items on hacker news.
- nautical 8y agoThere might be potential issue with the name as there is a library "scrapy" with the same name.
- pawurb 8y agoI've noticed it after releasing the screencast. Maybe I'll consider renaming but looking at their license you cannot use a similar name only if you use their lib, and I don't
- davymac 8y agoI think most anyone on HN associates “scrapy” with the python library that performs a similar-ish function. I would highly suggest renaming, for many reasons, but other than the reason above, also googleability