Ferret – Declarative web scraping

Re:Ferret – Declarative web scraping by rabidrat on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @02:43PM (#18124461)

How about using an existing language, like Python? You can make a really great DSL using Python, and then people have access to all the other Python language features that they already know, and the stdlib that they already know, and 3rd-party modules they already know..

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Re:Ferret – Declarative web scraping by ziflex on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @03:03PM (#18124657)

I could, if I knew Python pretty well :) But I've done it in the way I needed it to be done. I wanted to have an isolated and safe environment that would allow me to easily scrape the web without dealing with infrastructural code.

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Re:Ferret – Declarative web scraping by rabidrat on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @03:51PM (#18125097)

Yup, I get it, I want that too, but I don't want to learn another language just to do that :/

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