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In my opinion "The Small Web" should be "Microsoft Frontpage"ish" paired with one button publishes. Should give the user the option of hosting it with a wid

In my opinion "The Small Web" should be "Microsoft Frontpage"ish" paired with one button publishes. Should give the user the option of hosting it with a wide variety of vendors from shared hosting, something like Netlify, and several like GeoCities. or for advanced users self-publish on a computer they have. To make it easy for the common person to post what they want on the web. Involving Javascript, Hugo, an abstraction on Hugo, a database, JavaScript frameworks is just yet another tech stack accessible only to full stack or front-end programmers. (or whoever has the necessary skills. These people should already have all the information and ability to make their own website and host it wherever they want. They do not require help to solve it. I would like to see a user-friendly desktop app Like Frontpage was a long time ago. Let people type lika a Wordprocessor, add colors, images, blinking, tables, visitor count, guest books and so on. some other things, press button, its up. Tomorrow write a bit press button, its up.

qnsi 5y ago
hey ThinkBeat, sorry to hijack a comment. You posted a Ask HN: thread [0] Ask HN: Are there any web/text scrapers that work with Facebook Groups? did u found something working? Or did you drop your search. I am interested in scraping private FB groups [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28095801 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28095801
- ThinkBeat 5y ago
  Hey, No, I have not found anything that I would dare to try. There is a (in my opinion) shady set of "scraper providers" who for some $$$ (how much and by what matrix differs a lot). That claim to do this for you. Firstly, I dont really trust them to begin with. Second since this a breach of Facebook TOS going with a known provider seems scary and I would prefer to set my own request repeat speed. More importantly usually their main "top" feature is to scrape out all contact information in a group for "marketing" opportunities. So I decided against all those. I am still looking. I have not given up. My need for this is actually increasing. I tried doing it by hand but I could not stand it. I have tried some Macro recorders of various types but not found one that really understands what I want to do. The structure of Facebooks pages are (on purpose?) hard to explain to such a tool. I keep looking around various scraping frameworks for Go, C# and Python. I have not yet been able to create a program / script that is good enough. It seems so bloody easy when you sit there,with Facebook in a browser you scroll, cut paste, scroll. annoying. To be clear, I want the content of the post I am an admin for. Other admins and some users are worried that many years worth of great discourse can be lost at a blink of a Facebook eye. So I am trying to find a "backup" solution really.

qnsi 5y ago

hey ThinkBeat, sorry to hijack a comment. You posted a Ask HN: thread [0] Ask HN: Are there any web/text scrapers that work with Facebook Groups? did u found something working? Or did you drop your search. I am interested in scraping private FB groups [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28095801 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28095801

ThinkBeat 5y ago
Hey, No, I have not found anything that I would dare to try. There is a (in my opinion) shady set of "scraper providers" who for some $$$ (how much and by what matrix differs a lot). That claim to do this for you. Firstly, I dont really trust them to begin with. Second since this a breach of Facebook TOS going with a known provider seems scary and I would prefer to set my own request repeat speed. More importantly usually their main "top" feature is to scrape out all contact information in a group for "marketing" opportunities. So I decided against all those. I am still looking. I have not given up. My need for this is actually increasing. I tried doing it by hand but I could not stand it. I have tried some Macro recorders of various types but not found one that really understands what I want to do. The structure of Facebooks pages are (on purpose?) hard to explain to such a tool. I keep looking around various scraping frameworks for Go, C# and Python. I have not yet been able to create a program / script that is good enough. It seems so bloody easy when you sit there,with Facebook in a browser you scroll, cut paste, scroll. annoying. To be clear, I want the content of the post I am an admin for. Other admins and some users are worried that many years worth of great discourse can be lost at a blink of a Facebook eye. So I am trying to find a "backup" solution really.