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Re:Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please? by thanksforfish on Saturday May 16, 2020 @02:14AM (#23200894)
Honestly theres a lot of other sites that would benefit from that too. A well written and maintained scraper for a bunch of popular sites may be worth a subscription for some bandwidth limited people.
Re:Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please? by 0x38B on Saturday May 16, 2020 @06:00AM (#23202086)
I've thought about this, too; some of my favorite sites are forums that are a pain to use on mobile (e.g. RuTracker).

Seems like a fun project, so I may start planning it when I have time.

Re:Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please? by williamdclt on Saturday May 16, 2020 @09:29AM (#23203217)
Be careful with that: it very probably goes against all sorts of TOS and can get you in trouble
Re:Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please? by cddotdotslash on Saturday May 16, 2020 @09:57AM (#23203415)
A court recently ruled [1] that LinkedIn had to allow scraping, but it has to be public data (i.e. you can't log into your Facebook account and then scrape all your friends' pages).

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/09/victory-ruling-hiq-v-l...

Re:Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please? by williamdclt on Sunday May 17, 2020 @08:35AM (#23211524)
It's not the scraping itself that I would be worried about, it's using this data to create what could be seen as a competitor (especially if you make it commercial). For a lot of these websites, traffic is essentially money: diverting users to another website using their own content would be very badly received
Re:Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please? by 0x38B on Sunday May 17, 2020 @06:14AM (#23210971)
Thanks for the heads up.

I was more thinking about a local web-app that consumes the site and then outputs it in a nice mobile layout, without actually archiving or saving anything.