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Re:Portia, an open-source visual web scraper by stedaniels on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @04:48PM (#7511543)
Why would scrape JIRA when they have a perfectly workable API?
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Re:Portia, an open-source visual web scraper by lepht on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @04:50PM (#7511562)
While their APIs are nice, they require separate permissions and having access to them isn't always a given depending on the company that runs/owns the Jira instance.
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Re:Portia, an open-source visual web scraper by alttab on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @05:19PM (#7511768)
This. I also would rather just grab it in the browser instead of having to run a server or something else.
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