olegus8

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by olegus8 11y ago
Take a look at Weboob ( http://weboob.org ). It's an attempt to create a well-defined uniform API for websites lacking one. I wrote a few modules for it, and they're scraping 4 banks and 4 shops on a daily basis for last
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by olegus8 11y ago
Excellent point about PDFs. Some Weboob modules scrape PDF statements as well: at least Amazon Store Card, Wells Fargo and Citibank (disclaimer - written by yours truly). But even with these statements sometimes whole history cannot be rest
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by olegus8 11y ago
I think "writing my own fits-like-a-glove tool" pretty much covers it. I wanted a very minimalistic tool which just scrapes the data and transforms it into a report. Probably I could have achieved the same result by writing a few
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by olegus8 11y ago
Certainly can imagine this happens. Currently I'm scraping 4 banks and 4 shops on a daily basis, and the only issue was when scraping for the first time from new IP address. They asked a security question or displayed a captcha. I reso
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by olegus8 11y ago
Weboob ( http://weboob.org ) has moderately active community. There's even a couple of finance tools built around it. Though web services it scrapes are mostly European.
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by olegus8 11y ago
Good point, I actually considered Javascript too. Though it seems like there's no one-size-fits-all tool, but right tools for right problems. I'd use Javascript for in-browser games, but something different for standalone ones if
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by olegus8 11y ago
Thank you! My love to Python started with this game. Though now I'd rather use something like C++ and Lua for games. It'd make it much easier to port and distribute.
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