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https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/ https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/ I mean... soup.find(id="link3") # <a class="sist

• Cyberdog 7y ago
  For HN's audience, no, that's not hard. But this product is clearly not only for us, and you've also cherry-picked a very simple example. There's also the aspect of downloading the page in the first place and dealing with things like authentication and bot detection which a product like this helps solve. I personally don't have a use for this product right now, but I won't be so bold as to say I'll never find a case where using it wouldn't be easier or more cost-effective than hacking up my own solution.
• penagwin 7y ago
  If you show that to non-programmers they'll take one look at that and understand that about as well as egyptian hieroglyphics. "Soup? Python? What's an 'id'? class? href? I just want to select the title!"
• slig 7y ago
  Good, now do that on a page that uses JS and authentication. Trivial on this extension, not so much using BS.