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What you just described is essentially a scraper/crawler right? Would scraping them into a sheet you own be sufficient for your use case?
by tjchear 6y ago
What you just described is essentially a scraper/crawler right?
Would scraping them into a sheet you own be sufficient for your use case?
- londons_explore 6y agoYes, but currently the process of writing a scraper for a given page is usually half an hour with beautiful soup... Or more if you have to handle multiple pages, Auth cookies that expire, and rate limits. Example usecase:. eBay search results, I want to sort by "Price plus $0.50 per mile from me", since I'm going to have to drive my van to pick up the item. That would be super easy with a spreadsheet of the search results, and I could probably have the data sorted in under 60 seconds on a column of "=B5+C5*0.5"
- tjchear 6y agoIt's the complete opposite of what SheetUI hopes to achieve, but this is such an interesting use case I'll think more about it :) I can see how there might be a legitimately strong demand for it. Feel free to connect with me (tjchear on twitter/linkedin/gmail) to discuss this further.