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Even with the best of intentions, DOM structures can change without advanced notice. Instead of scraping via DOM structure, why not screenshot a webpage and use
by JMTQp8lwXL 6y ago
Even with the best of intentions, DOM structures can change without advanced notice. Instead of scraping via DOM structure, why not screenshot a webpage and use OCR? I think the solution to the scraping problem is being viewed narrowly.
- taeric 6y agoThis suggestion is a hilarious admission that hypertext as conceived failed. And that makes me rather sad.
- JMTQp8lwXL 6y agoIt didn't fail. People don't want others scraping to protect their businesses. And that's how we've ended up with highly obfuscated HTML. If it failed, it wouldn't work at all. HTML was designed to display documents, not for scraping purposes. You know what is designed to be scraped? An actual application programming interface.