So i will edit this question to this : Is there a better way to code a portable application with a graphical user interface to scrape a given site ?
Thanks for your comment.
Some example would be Scrapinghub's Portia system and the Kantu startup. There are also established players like UIPath and Visualwebripper.
Yes but using regular expressions is the last and least recommended solution, please read : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3577641/how-do-you-parse...
[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open...
> regular expressions is a waste of time when the aforementioned libraries already exist and do a much better job on this.
as this:
> it’s only not recommmended because people don’t know how to use it
It says "can make regex fail when not properly written" etc.
There are different circumstances where using a premade parsing library versus using raw regular expressions are going to make sense.
The answer is not binary.
What would you want to scrape there which is not against their ToS and a violation of user privacy in general?
Would get rid of the clutter and keep FB from some amount of shenanigans with my browser.
Facebook broke both legal and ethical “ToS” countless times and has no plan to stop.
Why do you consider what Facebook is doing as OK but a little web scraping for personal usage to be so bad?