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Android app, USB dongle with HDMI capture card. Screenshot goes to OCR and LLM. There is a virtual USB HID mouse build on Arduino that clicks on links.

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For more on this setup, see “Web Scraping Fundamentals” by Rube Goldberg.

Wouldn't it be easier to just interact directly with their web interface through an automated browser?

I prefer to scrape their Android app.

I tried this on another site and got blocked. You need to be aware of how bot detection works

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