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Re:Osmosis: Web scraper for Node.js by curiousjorge on Sunday April 05, 2015 @10:18PM (#9326122)
why you would write web scraper using asynchronous javascript beats me. what is the gain?
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Re:Osmosis: Web scraper for Node.js by richmarr on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @10:00AM (#9334047)
the ability to scrape/crawl pages with interactive elements without writing tons of threading code, or limiting your crawl rate to the number of threads you can handle.
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