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Is there a reason this doesn't spit out some python or JavaScript code to scrape the same info out? This just seems to add another dependency to whatever I'm d

• petr-nagy 7y ago
  Did you read the website? It says "Scrape locally or create recipes that run quickly in the cloud." Also, what use could website spitting essentially the same python/js script over and over have?
  • flingo 7y ago
    I must have skimmed past that. Whoops. I avoided trying it out because it's not available on firefox, so I couldn't correct my assumption by testing it. Also, couldn't easily find copy of the extension source and gave up. The site/extension basically has to do that each time it scrapes locally (or use generic parametrised scraper) If you wanted to use it in an API, my impression is that you can run it in chrome as an extension you need to get from the chrome store or tunnel your data through a third party server. Is that wrong? Can you scrape data locally without running chrome/the extension? I can't tell from reading the site, sorry. (if it's actually there, please link an anchor tag to it or something please)