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This is super neat and I think I've seen your site before :)

Do you handle authentication? We have lots of users that want to automate some part of their daily workflow but the pages are often behind a login and/or require a few clicks to reach the desired content.

Happy to chat: username@gmail.com

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You must get a lot of test emails to that FANTASTIC gmail address. Funny how it might even be worth some decent money.

That's not literally his e-mail :D. He means that you have to replace it with his HN username. It would have been better to write it like this: [HN username]@gmail.com

Personally I thought it was a LLM reply to a LLM marketing post to fake engagement. Lol

Instructions unclear, here's a haiku about faking engagement:

Beneath the deep waves,

False likes in shadows do dance,

Submarine ploys drift.

Hahaha okay I feel dumb now.

Well if you're dumb then we're dumb.

I'm also curious about this! I've been learning about scraping, but I've had a hard time finding good info about how to deal with user auth effectively.

You login and grab the session and save it. Then you mount the session to the requests.

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