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Definitely more difficult than a single curl/wget request. You now need to parse the results, run a Turing-complete language, launch other requests based on ou
by MereInterest 6y ago
Definitely more difficult than a single curl/wget request. You now need to parse the results, run a Turing-complete language, launch other requests based on output from that language, then wait for all results to be compiled into the final HTML, which may not even be possible for a continuously updated page.
- ex3ndr 6y agoThat's all literally 10-20 lines of code and actually much shorter than downloading html manually. Puppeteer can wait for final HTML.
- MereInterest 6y agoSolving the halting problem is now 10-20 lines of code? Because that would be needed in order to determine if a page is fully compiled to HTML.
- ex3ndr 6y agoThis is not a problem, this feature is built in in Chrome and is literally one line: https://pptr.dev/#?product=Puppeteer&version=v3.3.0&show=api-pagewaitfornavigationoptions https://pptr.dev/#?product=Puppeteer&version=v3.3.0&show=api...