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jeffjia

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A thinking developer who is always fascinated with exploring new areas.

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jeffjia··on Even with 2FA, Google accounts can be hacked with just a phone number
The browser "back" button for the website is broken...
jeffjia··on UK to allow driverless cars on public roads in January
Self-driving cars need to be trained to run on left side now.
jeffjia··on Micro heaters cut 87% off my electric heat bill
Let's just have Nest...
jeffjia··on Ask HN: Is there any HTML table scraper generator in python or else?
Thanks Johnie. It is almost what I want, except that it is not open-source and free...
jeffjia··on Ask HN: Is there any HTML table scraper generator in python or else?
Yeah. Me too. The css selector is quite convenient. The only problem is that I need to pick the selector set for each website I need to scrape, and there are tens of them, which makes the work itself time-consuming...
jeffjia··on Ask HN: Is there any HTML table scraper generator in python or else?
Thanks. I used beautiful soup for the parser, and actually have written a crawler framework for my scenario. But I was wondering whether there is any tool that could automate the selection of css selector or xpath.
jeffjia··on Ask HN: Is there any HTML table scraper generator in python or else?
I was using mechanizer + beautiful soup in python before, but it seems that this one also needs human to read the html source code to pick a css selector instead of automating it...
jeffjia··on A New Side Project - Send2Cloud
Thanks, jakedahn. I really appreciate your suggestion. I would try only using Dropbox for authentication in the next version.