VOvoltagex_·May 31, 2015
How is this different from https://github.com/niklasb/dryscrape?
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dryscrape
[not actively maintained] A lightweight Python library that uses Webkit to enable easy scraping of dynamic, Javascript-heavy web pages
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[not actively maintained] A lightweight Python library that uses Webkit to enable easy scraping of dynamic, Javascript-heavy web pages
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2012 | 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesI just tried to use dryscrape [1] for a project. It's great when it works, but it's not liberal enough in what it accepts [2], so it gives off showstopping InvalidResponseErrors (which make sense when the library is using for BDD, but not when you are using it to get at javascripty download links).
This ghost.py looks great, I'll give it a go after dinner tonight.
[1] https://github.com/niklasb/dryscrape
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle
[3] https://github.com/niklasb/dryscrape/issues/6
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