Comment on Chad scraper

indepndnt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• 257m@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Relevant SO post. stackoverflow.com/…/regex-match-open-tags-except-…

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  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    13 years ago my god. I wonder what Jon Skeet is doing these days.

    I remember when he passed me in the reputation ranking back in the early days and thinking that I needed to be a little bit more active on the site to catch him lol.

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  • DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That was a great read. Thanks!

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• demodawg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is the way

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• tetelestia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What’s wrong with parsing HTML with regex?

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  • indepndnt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    In short, it’s the wrong tool for the job.

    In practice, if your target is very limited and consistent, it’s probably fine. But as a general statement about someone’s behavior, it really sounds like someone is wasting a lot of time and regularly getting sub-par results.

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