Previous discussions, all from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13867739 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13867739 (349 points, 49 comments) htt

Previous discussions, all from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13867739 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13867739 (349 points, 49 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13857086 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13857086 (1274 points, 317 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13838399 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13838399 (70 points, 8 comments) -- As a tangential slightly OT bonus, I also found an informative article+discussion from the same author: Web Scraping: Bypassing “403 Forbidden,” captchas, and more http://sangaline.com/post/advanced-web-scraping-tutorial/ http://sangaline.com/post/advanced-web-scraping-tutorial/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13884357 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13884357 (564 points, 227 comments)