Web Scraping

The cluster focuses on discussions about web scraping techniques, tools, services, and comparisons to APIs for extracting data from websites, including inquiries about specific scrapers, open-source options, and avoiding blocks.

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m-p-3 May 23, 2023 View on HN

ugh, back to scraping / web crawling I suppose..

RileyJames Aug 19, 2021 View on HN

Hit me up, email in profile.Working on similar stuff, effectively what you have without the requirement to maintain scrapers.

deostroll Nov 22, 2020 View on HN

I find scraping the website useful, and, better than API. And I think it is also encouraged. Checkout /robots.txt

jgmmo Jul 5, 2014 View on HN

whats the unique value proposition of this compared to the bajillion other web scrapers out there?

krsunny Jun 13, 2012 View on HN

Nice site, very useful. Do you scrape all your data?

aonic Jun 8, 2011 View on HN

Thanks! More interested in the scraper.. is it open-source? If yes, where can we download it? If not, can you write about your experience in building it?

TiredTyler Jan 15, 2021 View on HN

Contract me for any web-scraping needs

daef Feb 1, 2019 View on HN

seems like they are advertising a scraping service -> "Want to get the data yourself?"

leni536 Aug 24, 2015 View on HN

Couldn't one just scrape? You don't have to use the API.

slater Feb 2, 2024 View on HN

So you're... scraping Google...?