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Well I just scraped the hell out of that. Some very pretty images. I know it is labor intensive, but they really put the effort into a massive amount of hand drawn frames for some of these movies and it shows in the final product.

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I was wondering what that sucking sound was...

What did you use to do the scraping?

I don't know what he did, but I gave gemini-cli the url and asked for a script. The LLMs are pretty good at this sort of simple but tedious implementation.

And nothing of value was gained.

True if you think the images have no value, nor the time I saved by "outsourcing" the work, but writing the kind of trivial web scraper I've written N times before somehow does.

Personally I would disagree!

It might have been that the OP wanted to try for themselves using an app or some source code.

They are welcome to do so! I encourage anyone who finds this scraping problem interesting to approach it in whatever way they find the most rewarding!

I just did Advent of Code in Python, which isn't my daily use language but was fun to play with. Threw together a script in a little less than 5 min that did what I wanted: downloaded all the screenshots and put into a directory for each movie.

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