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Re:How far I'll go to make an RSS feed of your website by tene80i on Monday March 03, 2025 @07:47AM (#43241231)
Isn't it time-consuming to build a scraper for every website you want to get updates from? What if the HTML is a mess and full of dynamic front-end-framework classes etc?
Re:How far I'll go to make an RSS feed of your website by ChrisHardie on Monday March 03, 2025 @07:54AM (#43241271)
Once I created the structure to support lots of different kinds of scraping-to-feed conversions, it’s usually fast to add a new target site in to the mix. There are definitely exceptions, and definitely the occasional maintenance when someone updates their CSS.