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[–] Jackolantern@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can someone eli5 me. What’s scraping and how does it work? Like for example in the context of twitter with their current limitations, will scraping still work?

[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 years ago

Scraping is getting a webpage as if you're a normal user going to that page in firefox/chrome and extracting the bits you want from it. If Twitter makes you sign in to view tweets (which I guess it will now?) then scraping won't help much, otherwise it probably will, however it may take a fair bit of trickery to get working