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My dream (and something I may build given the time) is a large set of curated, regularly updated scripts using headless browser automation (e.g. playwright) to
by kodablah 6y ago
My dream (and something I may build given the time) is a large set of curated, regularly updated scripts using headless browser automation (e.g. playwright) to provide popular website services (e.g. FB, Twitter, etc) as a local API I could build a portal UI against. No separate server doing this, just desktop client side headless browser automation.
- dastx 6y agoThere are some apps that provide this. - https://github.com/zedeus/nitter https://github.com/zedeus/nitter for twitter - https://sr.ht/~cadence/bibliogram/ https://sr.ht/~cadence/bibliogram/ for instagram - https://github.com/iv-org/invidious https://github.com/iv-org/invidious for youtube There are likely others. The problem with the automation solution you mentioned is that, it'll be just as slow because of the JS it will need to run.
- jon-wood 6y agoHowever you don't have to be there while it runs. Have the automation scrape content you care about into a database on a regularly basis, and then your viewing of it takes however long a few SQL queries take.
- r3trohack3r 6y agoBe the change you want to see in the world