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This is the most inspiring implementation of live web scraping that I have seen. However, I think it will only work well on semantic HTML. I don't know about Ai

This is the most inspiring implementation of live web scraping that I have seen. However, I think it will only work well on semantic HTML. I don't know about AirBnb, used in the paper, but I can say many good words about GitHub. GitHub is an awesome example of a customizable web app thanks to solid, semantic HTML structure. You can see hundreds of web extensions and Tampermonkey user scripts for GitHub that work consistently. I wrote a few of my own. As a co-founder of Handsontable, I am proud to see it used in this paper. Handsontable is a commercial spreadsheet component, however it is free for non-commercial purposes such as education, research, study, and personal use, testing and demonstration: https://github.com/handsontable/handsontable/blob/master/handsontable-non-commercial-license.pdf https://github.com/handsontable/handsontable/blob/master/han...

tuesday20 7y ago
I’ve used handsontable and will gladly recommend it! The only library that can beat handsontable is ag-grid, which is on a league of its own and also very expensive. I especially love the Excel like formula feature.
gklitt 7y ago
Thanks for building Handsontable! It's been essential for quickly prototyping this project and I'm a fan of the API design. re: scraping, it's true that semantic HTML makes things easier, but we've also been building site adapters for a variety of modern sites that use frontend frameworks, "utility CSS", etc. Most promising solution so far is something I'm calling "AJAX scraping" -- observe the JSON request made by the client and just directly extract structured data from there.
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