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Re:How we learnt to stop worrying and love web scraping by sullyj3 on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @04:57PM (#24425823)
Sure, but it might be the only way to get the data.
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Re:How we learnt to stop worrying and love web scraping by hansvm on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @05:59PM (#24426419)
It might be, but _starting_ a scraping project with a headless browser might be excessively expensive if you don't need the additional features.
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Re:How we learnt to stop worrying and love web scraping by lyjackal on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @09:43PM (#24428067)
"only" is a bit of an overstatement. The data is always coming from somewhere, it just depends on how much effort needed to reverse engineer the JavaScript code path to the data
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