Video scraping: extracting JSON from a 35s screen capture for 1/10th of a cent

Re:Video scraping: extracting JSON from a 35s screen capture... by teruakohatu on Thursday October 17, 2024 @04:23PM (#41873382)

I admit this is a pretty cool technique, but what is missing is how accurate the data extraction was. Without knowing that it is not possible to judge how useful this technique is.

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Re:Video scraping: extracting JSON from a 35s screen capture... by simonw on Thursday October 17, 2024 @07:27PM (#41874840)

I watched the 35 second long video and confirmed by eyeballing the JSON that the result was exactly correct.

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Re:Video scraping: extracting JSON from a 35s screen capture... by korkybuchek on Thursday October 17, 2024 @04:44PM (#41873570)

He said in his tweet that he verified the results.

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Re:Video scraping: extracting JSON from a 35s screen capture... by kaveet on Thursday October 17, 2024 @09:48PM (#41875667)

> You should never trust these things not to make mistakes, so I re-watched the 35 second video and manually checked the numbers. It got everything right.

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