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Re:Dead simple Python crawler for extracting structured data... by catmanjan on Thursday January 07, 2016 @12:02AM (#10856091)
>This is in fact how I read HN.

Out of curiosity, why?

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Re:Dead simple Python crawler for extracting structured data... by echochar on Saturday January 09, 2016 @08:34PM (#10873722)
1. Practice with new programming language and database.

2. Turn unstructured, difficult to parse data adorned with HTML, and other window dressing into structured data that is easier to parse.

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