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bill_1992@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• DigitalPaperTrail@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  spite can be a great motivator, though

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  • Anonymousllama@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This one. One of the best motivators. Sense of satisfaction when you get it working and you feel unstoppable (until the next subtle changes happens anyway)

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  • archomrade@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I feel this

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• camr_on@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I loved scraping until my ip was blocked for botting lol. I know there’s ways around it it’s just work though

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  • pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I successfully scraped millions of Amazon product listings simply by routing through TOR and cycling the exit node every 10 seconds.

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    • camr_on@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s a good idea right there, I like that

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    • AlecStewart1st@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This guy scrapes

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    • aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      lmao, yeah, get all the exit nodes banned from amazon.

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      • pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s the neat thing, it wouldn’t because traffic only spikes for 10s on any particular node. It perfectly blends into the background noise.

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  • Touching_Grass@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You guys use IP’S?

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    • camr_on@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m coding baby’s first bot over here lol, I could probably do better

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    • synae@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Token ring for me baybeee

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• dangblingus@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Or in the case of wikipedia, every table on successive pages for sequential data is formatted differently.

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• Matriks404@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Just use AI to make changes ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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  • anarchy79@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Here take these: \\

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    • Matriks404@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      ¯_(ツ)_/¯\\ Thanks

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