Also, in response to your "low effort posts do not invite meaningful discussion" from a different comment, I don't see how this is any lower effort than every other link only post (i.e. the vast majority)? And there's over 40 comments on this thread now talking about other scrapers, projects you can do with scrapers, better docs, tangential use cases and how to handle them, etc. Seems like a lot of people have a variety of things to say about this, I don't see how that's not "meaningful discussion".
EDIT: I also disagree with requiring a couple of sentences from the submitter. If they have something to say they can say it, otherwise it's fine if they don't try to influence the discussion - it's more interesting to see where the random commenters take something, then trying to chart a course.
One of my favorite things about HN is that it has a lot of both serious oldtimers and high school students. It's actually a place where one can, at least sporadically, get the technical mentorship that many of us longed for, but missed, early in our careers.
Wikipedia submissions are a special case and somewhat different: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....
If you don't want to participate in this post, it's OK to skip it. I skip dozens of posts a day - the best part is it's more efficient than going to them and putting the effort to whine!
As for not inviting meaningful discussion: there's some good discussion on this post - the very article you claim isn't capable of generating such.
I'm guessing most of the difficult moderation would be on the newsy more-controversial posts anyways.