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Re:Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated? by dotdi on Thursday October 12, 2017 @04:45AM (#15456558)
I would not equate scraping with periodic searching for a keyword.

The problematic part is when you scrape data off of websites, and the owners don't want you to do it; as in, they would not even be happy if you manually copied that stuff into an excel file for fun or profit.

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Re:Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated? by jcun4128 on Thursday October 12, 2017 @05:13AM (#15456671)
I can see that, although automating to decrease views of a page(from checking by refresh)... I suppose the end result is sign up in this case.

So for me I'll set it up for them and them run it.

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