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You're absolutely right that limited data access and pagination exclude certain types of modifications. So far, we've decided to defer thinking about that limi
by gklitt 7y ago
You're absolutely right that limited data access and pagination exclude certain types of modifications.
So far, we've decided to defer thinking about that limitation, and first focus on other questions like getting the spreadsheet interactions right. We're making new site adapters every week and finding that we can build lots of useful modifications for ourselves which work even with only one page of a paginated list. For one example, see my demo of modifying HN front page [1], which I find useful even though it only loads the current front page articles.
At some point, we're considering adding more features around fetching subsequent pages of a table (as explored in Sifter [2], which sorts an entire list of search results across pagination boundaries) or scraping each detail page from a table (as explored in Helena [3]).
[1]: https://twitter.com/geoffreylitt/status/1229251217118892032 https://twitter.com/geoffreylitt/status/1229251217118892032
[2]: https://doi.org/10.1145/1166253.1166274 https://doi.org/10.1145/1166253.1166274
[3]: http://helena-lang.org/ http://helena-lang.org/
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