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Re: I Built My Own Shitty Static Site Generator by jokethrowaway on Sunday November 29, 2020 @10:42PM (#25250511)
I did exactly this several times.

Hand off WordPress / Django CMS to untechy people (either hosted or installed on their pc locally), setup a daily scraping job that updates a static website. By using free static hosts (eg netlify) and free scheduled processes somewhere (eg heroku) you can do it for free.

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Re: I Built My Own Shitty Static Site Generator by bamboleo on Monday November 30, 2020 @02:04AM (#25251372)
How can you scrape it if it’s on their computer?
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Re: I Built My Own Shitty Static Site Generator by ethanpil on Monday November 30, 2020 @09:11AM (#25253852)
What scraping tool did you use? How do you handle forms?
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