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Re:Portia, an open-source visual web scraper by notastartup on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @12:25AM (#7513563)
how would a bookmarklet be able to crawl & scrape a website?
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Re:Portia, an open-source visual web scraper by umurkontaci on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @05:21AM (#7514373)
You can have javascript code as a bookmarklet
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Re:Portia, an open-source visual web scraper by notastartup on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @11:06AM (#7516012)
yes I know that but how would you make it crawl links in your browser?
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