MIT Webscraper :)

(liamis.dev)

3 points | by ForgottenMail 12 hours ago ago

5 comments

  • codingdave 12 hours ago

    Actual Title: MIT Webscraper

    "...please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

    https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

    • ForgottenMail 11 hours ago

      My bad, bad decision on my part, its fixed!

  • ventana 11 hours ago

      I was worried that getting this data would be difficult,
      but unironically, they literally have a single div for all
      of the text in the article and a single div for the header
      that contains the article name, author and date released.
    
      IT'S LIKE THEY WANTED ME TO SCRAPE THE SITE.
    
    Why such a conclusion, and why is this "unironically"? A normal blog page, MIT or not, which is not obsessed with monetization or showing ads after each paragraph, is literally just a text with some very minor formatting (adding a few HTML tags here and there). It's very much expected that you would have a single <div class="content"> and an actual content inside of it.
    • ForgottenMail 11 hours ago

      ¯\(ツ)/¯ I was expecting it to be vauge and or have many divisions that would have made scraping harder, I was surprised that it did not. I also just have not had that much experience with large professional sites like that before

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