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I did something like this, but using xpath queries, only problem is when they decide to change these, you will have "fun" times retesting all the dom locations
by krob 14y ago
I did something like this, but using xpath queries, only problem is when they decide to change these, you will have "fun" times retesting all the dom locations to fix your scraper when the time does come when it breaks.
- kanzure 14y ago> I did something like this, but using xpath queries, only problem is when they decide to change these That's a strong reason for going with a library that is used by multiple users (more people to distribute the workload over). But more realistically, you can just use the existing API endpoints because there are client apps in the wild that rely on those APIs working the same way-- at least until Google sunsets Google Play.
- krob 14y agothere was an API which i found a while back, but it didn't work at all, all the unit tests it had failed, so my guess was that google changed their api once again and the project was worthless. The solution i came up with was the only reliable one i could build. It was only like 6 lines of code.