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If you scrape using accessible parts of the page (e.g. `aria-` attributes) it is less likely to be brittle, since if it were it would mean their site had stoppe
by lhnz 5y ago
If you scrape using accessible parts of the page (e.g. `aria-` attributes) it is less likely to be brittle, since if it were it would mean their site had stopped being accessible to screen readers, etc.
- KirillPanov 5y agoWhy the downvotes here? This is objectively true and, in my experience, very very useful. Screen readers are scrapers too. "Scraper" does not mean "user agent I don't like".
- DoreenMichele 5y agoIs there someplace I can read more about this idea? Any aspect of it. I'm one of the less technically literate members of HN, but I'm a co-owner of a blind dev group. Please and thank you.
- KirillPanov 5y agohttps://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/An_overview_of_accessible_web_applications_and_widgets https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/A...
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