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My preferred "self-hosted" webscraper is a local, single binary called xidel [1]. The feature I really like is that it can also follow links. [1] https://githu
by smartmic 1y ago
My preferred "self-hosted" webscraper is a local, single binary called xidel [1]. The feature I really like is that it can also follow links.
[1] https://github.com/benibela/xidel https://github.com/benibela/xidel
- darkwater 1y agoWow, it's written in Pascal! That surely brings me to memory lane.
- DocTomoe 1y agoWith Pascal being my first "adult" language, not used in 20 years ... it is surprising how readable that code is. Makes me wish for such simpler times.
- benibela 1y agothat fits, I wrote the first code for xidel almost 20 years ago and it still uses Pascal because I didn't plan to change it but just wanted to show people what I programmed 20 years ago
- darkwater 1y agoWhat environment are you using nowadays to develop in Pascal? Editor, possible plugins etc?
- benibela 1y agoFreePascal / Lazarus There was actually just a large discussion thread in the Lazarus forum wondering about why it is not more popular, with almost 300 comments. But now the thread got locked. That might be a reason. I used Delphi on Windows 98. But that became outdated, so I ported it to FreePascal. FreePascal has a lot of integrated libraries, but I do not really use anything I did not already use with Delphi.