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[–] BobbyBandwidth@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How can I become Chad

[–] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

python + requests + some good headers for requests + beautiful soup - this write doesn't look half bad: https://realpython.com/beautiful-soup-web-scraper-python/

[–] not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Parses HTML with regex, LOL. Reminds me of that classic stackoverflow post.

Edi: this one https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags

[–] slip@818.gallery 1 points 2 years ago

lmao first time reading that

[–] ElectricCattleman@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

That was beautiful.

[–] wunderbaba@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

What looks like the mock turtle from Alice and Wonderland, the rod of caduceus, and one extra buttock. Perfect now I know what to look for when I'm hiring a web scraper on Fiverr.