8chanAnon

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by 8chanAnon 2y ago
Third article in a series. Explores eval and self-invoking functions.
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Show HN: Web Scraping with Your Web Browser: Bot Challenges(8chananon.github.io)
6 points by 8chanAnon 2y ago|0 comments
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by 8chanAnon 2y ago
My next article will be on the topic of bypassing the Cloudflare bot protection. You can then compare with how Selenium handles this problem (if at all).
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by 8chanAnon 2y ago
Every dark mode site in existence should fail that test.
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by 8chanAnon 2y ago
>Some walled garden sites seem completely unscrapable Any examples besides Linkedin? Tell me what sites you're trying to target and I'll have a look to see what can be done with them. It takes some pretty evil Javascript obfusc
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by 8chanAnon 2y ago
WASM runs in a sandbox. It can only talk to the outside world via Javascript so you can forget the idea that it might be a way to crack through browser security. Maybe somebody will make a web browser with all of the security locks disabled
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by 8chanAnon 2y ago
Is there a happy in-between? Maybe not. What looks perfect to one user might appear atrocious to another. What is a poor website operator to do??? I dislike black-on-white and don't understand gray-on-black which seems to be popular no
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by 8chanAnon 2y ago
Red text on yellow - you mean the website? Would you like the text to be darker? And Beautiful Soup should be BeautifulSoup. Who makes the rules?
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by 8chanAnon 2y ago
I see. I don't have a wide-screen monitor (still using an old tube type until it finally expires but it's taking a few decades, lol). I've wondered whether people actually like reading websites on wide-screen. Some do and som
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by 8chanAnon 2y ago
>bad formatting If you can elaborate, I would very much appreciate it. I'm always interested in doing better. Why use Puppeteer etc. when you don't have to? What is the argument for using these additional tools versus not using
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by 8chanAnon 2y ago
Rather long so I'll read it later. Thanks for the tip. Got more or is that it?
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Web scraping with your web browser: Why not?(8chananon.github.io)
150 points by 8chanAnon 2y ago|73 comments
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by 8chanAnon 2y ago
I voted "light" because there is no "medium" option. Why is it a choice between gray-on-black or black-on-white? I would choose a "color" mode if there was such an option on the table. Maybe we can see a return
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by 8chanAnon 2y ago
I've been asking the same question myself though I'm not trying to get paying customers. I'm offering free stuff but I can't get many takers. One customer per 1000 views is pretty much the best you can expect. You need a
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by 8chanAnon 2y ago
I've updated the app to remove the user agent string so that the link will not redirect to "m.youtube.com". I hope that's all that's needed to fix this.
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by 8chanAnon 2y ago
Youtube just changed their code. The app is not currently working. Coincidence? I might have to wait a bit to see what else gets changed. Sorry about that. Update: Fixed! Will keep an eye on it.
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by 8chanAnon 2y ago
I have information that Youtube is redirecting from "www.youtube.com" to "m.youtube.com" when it detects a mobile user agent. The page data that is returned appears to be incompatible with the app's parsing code. Wi
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by 8chanAnon 2y ago
I have no idea what the potential compatibility issues might be with mobile. This has only been tested on PC. Any way to provide debugging info?
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by 8chanAnon 2y ago
Hmm. The title was supposed to be "YouTube Player app in your browser". Why was the word "your" replaced with "the"?
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Show HN: YouTube Player App in the Browser(8chananon.github.io)
1 points by 8chanAnon 2y ago|6 comments
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by 8chanAnon 2y ago
Who uses the Start Menu? I click on that maybe once in a blue moon to maybe uninstall something. This is just another reason to start doing the Linux thing once this Win10 machine needs to be replaced. Ironically, the reason why I didn&#x27
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by 8chanAnon 2y ago
The strong nuclear force is a figment of the physicists' imaginations. Likewise the weak nuclear force, dark matter and dark energy. The Standard Model does not align with reality nor reality with the mythical Big Bang, hence the need
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by 8chanAnon 2y ago
I sympathize. The task is easily accomplished with a properly coded regular expression but, damn, regex is haaaard. Also, there are too many gotchas in parsing random text. It's a no-win situation sometimes. Doing nothing might be the
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by 8chanAnon 2y ago
We're doing this again??? This post should have more replies, most of which would be cynical because we've had it with virus scares. They've been doing it for all of our lives until they finally got what they wanted in 2020.
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by 8chanAnon 2y ago
>Screw the games, I need to know what this thing does. Sounds like me. My first fascination was with my Texas Instruments scientific calculator. Then I got an Ohio Scientific Superboard. I really really needed to know how these things do
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by 8chanAnon 2y ago
I have a question for you. Why use Python at all? Or any of these puppeteer-type apps? If you're trying to scrape web sites then would it not make sense to do the scraping from inside of the web browser rather than from outside using t
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by 8chanAnon 2y ago
We have too many "particles" already. They keep coming up with these new-fangled ideas because they can't admit that the Standard Model is crap and needs to be scrapped. These so-called particles are all just manifestations o
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by 8chanAnon 2y ago
A simple search on "javascript import export" will yield much information on this topic. You can only import what has been explicitly exported. I don't know of any projects that are handled this way. Normally, you would just
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by 8chanAnon 2y ago
Advice for the easily offended: Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me. Some people never grow up and that's not an issue that can be solved with AI.
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by 8chanAnon 3y ago
It's hard to go back to a life of being used and abused by the corporations. With the Covid policies, we found out just how little the corps actually care about their workers. Now they're begging to have them back. Good to see.

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