Re:Show HN: Hacker News Mobile - A fast and readable mobile ...
by genieyclo on Thursday September 15, 2011 @08:29PM
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Cool, do you scrape with your own tool then? If so, what do you use?
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Re:Show HN: Hacker News Mobile - A fast and readable mobile ...
by news-yc on Thursday September 15, 2011 @10:58PM
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I scrape inside the app using a combination of libxml2, a custom XML wrapper for iOS, and then a horribly ugly (but pretty adaptable) chunk of objective-c to parse out the contents. This helps mostly for rate limiting issues: each device is rate limited as it should be.