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I'm a maintainer of googler (though I haven't put in much work for quite a while) and the author of the linked document. No, it doesn't use a screen scraper, an
by zmw 5y ago
I'm a maintainer of googler (though I haven't put in much work for quite a while) and the author of the linked document. No, it doesn't use a screen scraper, and I don't know how you even got that idea.
- Cederfjard 5y agoIs this perhaps a semantics issue? The linked document mentions parsing HTML, and that layout updates can break it. How would you describe the way googler operates? Edit: Would ”web scraping” be a more apt description?
- zmw 5y agoYes, it's a scraper extracting results from HTML. Which is very different from a screen scraper...