Show HN: Browserless.io now has a scraping API

Re:Show HN: Browserless.io now has a scraping API by dinkleberg on Sunday November 03, 2019 @02:03PM (#21435836)

Hey, nice work. It might be useful though to explain why one would use this over something like beautiful soup or the dozens of other scraping libraries out there.

In my mind, I see the target audience already needing programming skills. That same audience would be comfortable just using a free scraping library.

But maybe there is some functionality or ease of use that would make your offering a better choice.

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Re:Show HN: Browserless.io now has a scraping API by madjon on Sunday November 03, 2019 @09:01PM (#21438362)

Is there a list somewhere of scraping libraries and/or tools? I am struggling to find a product that will allow easy scraping of websites with little to no programming. Something a non-developer could use.

e: Nevermind, found this: https://github.com/cassidoo/scrapers

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Re:Show HN: Browserless.io now has a scraping API by mrskitch on Monday November 04, 2019 @09:49AM (#21442115)

Yup, that's a great point. This does help those with familiarity about REST APIs get started, and those wo a lot of puppeteer background.

I think the more recent chrome extension examples are pretty interesting, and we're looking to go that direction at some point.

Thanks again!

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