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Re:Show HN: This Hacker News does not exist on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @01:52PM (#44183539)
Interesting, the problem of deleted content is ever growing. When I look at my liked videos on youtube every 10th is unavailable without any information/title/thumbnail, there's no way to tell what it was. Very frustrating indeed, that's why i save every video i find valuable

Show HN: Automatic Python scraper for xenforo, phpbb, invision, smf, vbulletin

https://github.com/TUVIMEN/forumscraper

It's capable of getting threads and users, and can quickly get basic information about threads from forums, boards and tags.Engine identification system allows to pass urls directly without specifying engine name. Each engine also has url guessing system that recognizes the type of resource.It can also find the root of the site which is useful for getting the whole forum from random links.Your...

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Re:Ask HN: How to get a direct link from Google search result? on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @04:45PM (#41314055)
I recommend https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clearurls/ for that, it also works for other sites.