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Love the project. Do you ever worry about Microsoft tightening the purse strings on these types of off-label uses for github?

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I do. I'm happy to pay for Actions minutes on private repos, but I do worry that they'll change their policy with regards to free minutes for public repos at some point.

I felt a lot better about my git scraping work (https://simonwillison.net/2020/Oct/9/git-scraping/) after GitHub released https://next.github.com/projects/flat-data/ which was inspired by that work, as it feels like it's now acknowledged as an OK use of their platform.

I'm hoping people don't abuse shot-scraper too much in terms of saving huge binary files to free repositories - that's why I haven't yet included tips on running scheduled scrapers in the shot-scraper-template documentation.

I saw you were poking with some image diff tools recently as well, and I'm sure you've thought about this already but I'd just like to explicitly state it: it'd be great if you could scrape a screenshot periodically and only commit it if the new one is significantly different.

Yeah that's the idea behind https://github.com/simonw/image-diff but it's not quite fit for purpose yet.

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