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Love the project. Do you ever worry about Microsoft tightening the purse strings on these types of off-label uses for github?
by 0des 5y ago
Love the project. Do you ever worry about Microsoft tightening the purse strings on these types of off-label uses for github?
- simonw 5y agoI do. I'm happy to pay for Actions minutes on private repos, but I do worry that they'll change their policy with regards to free minutes for public repos at some point. I felt a lot better about my git scraping work (https://simonwillison.net/2020/Oct/9/git-scraping/ https://simonwillison.net/2020/Oct/9/git-scraping/) after GitHub released https://next.github.com/projects/flat-data/ https://next.github.com/projects/flat-data/ which was inspired by that work, as it feels like it's now acknowledged as an OK use of their platform. I'm hoping people don't abuse shot-scraper too much in terms of saving huge binary files to free repositories - that's why I haven't yet included tips on running scheduled scrapers in the shot-scraper-template documentation.
- beardicus 5y agoI saw you were poking with some image diff tools recently as well, and I'm sure you've thought about this already but I'd just like to explicitly state it: it'd be great if you could scrape a screenshot periodically and only commit it if the new one is significantly different.
- simonw 5y agoYeah that's the idea behind https://github.com/simonw/image-diff https://github.com/simonw/image-diff but it's not quite fit for purpose yet.