Show HN: Till – Unblock and scale your web scrapers, with minimal code changes

Re:Show HN: Till – Unblock and scale your web scrapers, with... by tyingq on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @09:58AM (#28061065)

>you should be able to access the same data via a machine as you could when you're a person

I generally agree with this, but I do see the problem for certain spaces.

Concert tickets, for example. People write scrapers to get the best seats and sit on them so they can scalp them later at inflated prices. Or other first-come/first-serve situations, online auction "sniping", etc.

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Re:Show HN: Till – Unblock and scale your web scrapers, with... by capableweb on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @10:07AM (#28061165)

Same thing applies here as I said in another comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28060567), some people (me included) also write scrapers for getting the best seats in concerts/shows as I'm a big fan of the artist and really want to go there with good seats.

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Re:Show HN: Till – Unblock and scale your web scrapers, with... by osmarks on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @03:41PM (#28065298)

Perhaps it would be better to not gate by whether you happen to have visited a website fast enough relative to other people. For auctions, at least, there is a simple solution in the form of extending the auction timer whenever someone bids.

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