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Ask HN: How can I make an alternative front end for a website?

2 points by gorenb 3y ago

Hi. I'd like help making an alternative front-end for reddit with scrapy. I'm using a scrapy project. I know nothing about JavaScript, so the frontend part would preferably be more HTML/Tailwind-CSS oriented. This should all be python, less JavaScript in general.

onesphere 3y ago
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PaulHoule 3y ago
Like download all of reddit with scrapy, put the content in a database and host your own site based on that database?
- gorenb 3y ago
  No, like someone requests a URL, scrape it with scrapy (replace my URL with reddit.com and scrape that) and then return that to the user.
  - gorenb 3y ago
    Maybe I could also turn it into an API with FastAPI.
    - PaulHoule 3y ago
      I think scrapy doesn't work in real time. You could definitely write a proxy server that does an http request and transforms the HTML though.