• Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
    7·
    4 months ago

    That’s good to know, I’ll look into that some more. I was thinking that it might be slow if I’m having to scrape each page, every time a user changes categories (or something similar).

    Well, it’s as slow as the website you’re scraping. Could actually be faster if you don’t have to execute a lot of bullshit JavaScript. And for the rest clever caching should help.

    In terms of technology you’re looking for XSLT, Xpath, CSS selectors and whatever parsers are available for your language of choice. Don’t ever attempt to use regex for scraping.

    • brokenlcd@feddit.it
      6·
      4 months ago

      Don’t ever attempt to use regex for scraping.

      Proceeds to implement a scraper in bash with grep and awk because it’s the only way i know how to

        • brokenlcd@feddit.it
          1·
          4 months ago

          I’ve always been searching for the time to learn python, but between uni and work i wake up at 5 and go back home at 10; + they where not going to pay me for this fix

          Tldr; couldn’t be fucked to study a whole other language in my nonexistent free time for a fix that they wouldn’t pay me for anyways