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Good work! For extracting meta information -- a set of community maintained information scrapers (html, or intercepting ajax) for different websites could be co
by karlicoss 6y ago
Good work!
For extracting meta information -- a set of community maintained information scrapers (html, or intercepting ajax) for different websites could be cool. It's hard to maintain all the sites on your own (especially the ones you don't use), and by sharing we could perhaps avoid redoing the same thing twice.
Your extension, of course, Wildcard (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22439141 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22439141), youtube-dl, and possibly many other could benefit from it.
- laybak 6y agothanks! and yeah that's a very good point, and one of the main reasons why I'm open sourcing this. Community maintained information scrapers/extractors is definitely a direction I want to build towards, collaborating with any existing efforts. Though the exact form will take some iterations (e.g. a marketplace for scripts/"recipes", built-in scripts for common sites, allowing individual users to save their own scrapers etc.)