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Re:Show HN: MrScraper – A visual web-scraping tool by aleksiy123 on Friday February 10, 2023 @02:47PM (#34744763)
Curious how well ChatGPT could write css selectors for these no code scrapers.

If running the model was cheaper I would even say run the whole page through ChatGPT and ask it to format the information on the page for you.

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Re:Show HN: MrScraper – A visual web-scraping tool by buffer_overflow on Saturday February 11, 2023 @06:26AM (#34751363)
Already tried that. Not worth it with the current token limitations.

But I'm currently tinkering with other applications of AI and MrScraper. Will ship something when I think it's reliable enough.

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Re:Show HN: MrScraper – A visual web-scraping tool by Buttons840 on Saturday February 11, 2023 @01:19PM (#34754757)
I haven't looked at many web scrapers. Do most use CSS selectors? What about xpath? I always found xpath to be much more powerful.
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