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Re:Scrape like the big boys by ligerzer0 on Friday November 05, 2021 @01:14PM (#29122107)
Exactly, some of us use scrapers because while we can't go full Richard Stallman, we also don't want to visually sift through ridiculous UI just to look at some basic data/text.
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Re:Scrape like the big boys by matheusmoreira on Friday November 05, 2021 @08:25PM (#29126198)
> we also don't want to visually sift through ridiculous UI just to look at some basic data/text

Yeah.

First scraper I ever built was for my school portal. Absolutely atrocious user interface. It got to the point that I seriously hated that site so I built a script to log into it and download my information. I just wanted to see my grades without suffering.

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