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Re:Web Scraping: Bypassing “403 Forbidden,” captchas, and more by brilliantcode on Friday March 17, 2017 @03:54PM (#13897406)
I see, so there's not much value beyond startups and bootstrappers.

I feel like it's a hard sell to enterprises. Scraping is viewed inferior to an API so it makes sense for enterprises to just pay the target website for access to the data.

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Re:Web Scraping: Bypassing “403 Forbidden,” captchas, and more by jakubbalada on Saturday March 18, 2017 @03:47AM (#13900365)
It's also hard to get direct access to the data.

But you're right it's a hard sell to enterprises although we have some (e.g. real estate developer creating pricing maps)

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