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Re:Ferret – Declarative web scraping by theboat on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @01:33PM (#18123808)
Is your beautifulsoup wrapper open source?
Re:Ferret – Declarative web scraping by existencebox on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @02:42PM (#18124443)
If other people would find it beneficial it can be; I had admittedly seen it as "just a mess of sugar to help me scrape easier" (with all the typical nervousness of showing others "imperfect" code). I'm aptly in the process of cleaning it up, writing tests and finishing an MVP UI. I can do a show HN in a few weeks once I've found the time to get it ship-shape.
Re:Ferret – Declarative web scraping by ziflex on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @02:49PM (#18124521)
You definitely need to share. Web scraping is tedious. As more ideas we have, as more options we have to come up with a better solution for that.