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My dream (and something I may build given the time) is a large set of curated, regularly updated scripts using headless browser automation (e.g. playwright) to provide popular website services (e.g. FB, Twitter, etc) as a local API I could build a portal UI against. No separate server doing this, just desktop client side headless browser automation.

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There are some apps that provide this.

- https://github.com/zedeus/nitter for twitter

- https://sr.ht/~cadence/bibliogram/ for instagram

- https://github.com/iv-org/invidious for youtube

There are likely others.

The problem with the automation solution you mentioned is that, it'll be just as slow because of the JS it will need to run.

However you don't have to be there while it runs. Have the automation scrape content you care about into a database on a regularly basis, and then your viewing of it takes however long a few SQL queries take.

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