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Comment by ssss11 | Hacker News Reader
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ssss11
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Does this use scraping? Trying to understand how it works
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dev_at
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Yes, it uses scraping. The algorithms used are very general in order to make it work on any website.
ssss11
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Yeah it’s interesting that you’ve got it to work on any website… well done
dev_at
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Thank you!
WendyTheWillow
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url + xpath works anywhere
jessehattabaugh
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Until the path changes...
WendyTheWillow
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Yep, that’s a challenge! But the impressiveness is in solving that, not in getting it to work on every website.
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