Re:More notes on writing web scrapers
by cushychicken on Friday February 25, 2022 @12:24PM
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Author here. Let's talk web scrapers.
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Copying a request as cURL, PowerShell, fetch etc… right from inside the DevTools is a blessing.
Re:More notes on writing web scrapers
by cushychicken on Friday February 25, 2022 @01:00PM
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Isn't it though?
Does create a bit of work when you have to figure out which parts of cURL need to be ported to Python, and which can be safely omitted. Copying a cURL request adds in a lot of headers - many of which I still don't properly know the purpose of.
I'll get there eventually. : ) In the meantime - thank god for whoever wrote "Copy as cURL request"!
Is there such thing as an unscrapable site? I tried to open driver.uber.com with Pyppeteer and it fails. I’m guessing it’s due to redirects, so what have you seen solve this problem?
Re:More notes on writing web scrapers
by cushychicken on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @03:23PM
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Workday is my 800 pound scraping gorilla.
Never heard of Pyppeteer.