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I have been putting some real thought into this as an idea for client-side scraping and re-presentation [0]. I have come to the conclusion we just need a commun
by kodablah 8y ago
I have been putting some real thought into this as an idea for client-side scraping and re-presentation [0]. I have come to the conclusion we just need a community maintained set of code that turns popular websites into APIs that people can program against. If you turn that into an easier-to-read-sans-BS page by querying the API, so be it. It of course needs to be deployed as part of the app, there are legal issues with hosting the API externally. I have started some work around this concept for my own personal use on pages that give me too much guff.
0 - https://github.com/cretz/software-ideas/issues/82 https://github.com/cretz/software-ideas/issues/82
- PaulHoule 8y agoI find with BeautifulSoup or JSoup it is often just as easy to write a scraper than an API client, particularly when the authentication for the API is like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2ObCoCm61s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2ObCoCm61s