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100% this. Every website is different, though after doing this kind of thing for long enough, there are often common patterns and frameworks/libraries. Even general obfuscation can be reasonably reverse engineered with enough time and effort.

I agree that OP sounds like a beginner, and what you've suggested is likely the best approach for someone who is familiar with frontend tools and frameworks. Selenium (and admittedly BeautifulSoup) is probably too low level for this particular user, but that doesn't mean they can't still learn some fundamentals while solving this problem without resorting to something as heavy and complicated as background browser emulation and rendering. I could be wrong though.

I'm not currently on Discord, could you upload the code to pastebin or something similar?

https://pastebin.com/

I would love to see your code, but I understand if this forum isn't the most ideal place to share.

In my experience, this scenario typically means that there is some sort of API (very likely undocumented) that is being used on the backend. That requires a bit more investigation and testing with browser developer tools, the JS Console, and often trial and error. But once you overcome that (admittedly very complex and technical) hurdle, you can almost always get away with just using the requests library at that point.

I've had to do that kind of thing more times than I'd like to admit, but the juice is almost always worth the squeeze.

Selenium is really more of a testing framework for frontend developers, and could theoretically be used for scraping, but that would be somewhat like buying a car based on the paint and not looking in detail under the hood.

I can't say I've ever worked with scrappy, but the tool I would use for web scraping with Python is BeautifulSoup. This tutorial seems decent enough, but you will need to understand basic web concepts like IDs, classes, tags, and tag attributes to get the most out of the tutorial: https://geekpython.medium.com/web-scraping-in-python-using-beautifulsoup-3207c038723b

W3Schools will also be your friend if you have questions about HTML/CSS selectors in general: https://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp

Understanding regular expressions and/or xpath would also be very helpful, but are probably best considered to be extra credit in most cases.

I'll try to respond if you have any issues or questions, but hopefully that gives you enough to get started.

Automation. My phone automatically triggers API calls, settings tweaks, launches apps to specific pages/playlists, and collects usage statistics to a local and private location all on its own. This means I only get a day and a half of battery life, but the tradeoff is well worth it in my opinion.

https://mashable.com/article/iphone-2g-original-naysayers

https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/saw-this-on-reddit-tonight-a-2007-iphone-will-fail-column.2240010/ (can't seem to find the original article, so this is commentary and quotes from what the article said at the time)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7419784 (additional quotes and commentary on the same Bloomberg article, with other similar articles mentioned)

http://suckbusters2.blogspot.com/2007/06/apple-iphone-debut-to-flop-product-to.html?m=1 (good summary of the points that were made in opposition)

Android was going to be very different before the iPhone was revealed. That moment very clearly ushered in a new era for smartphones and phone technology in general. Now smartphones weren't just for business people with an IT team for support, or wealthier and tech savvy individuals, they were for the masses. That undeniably changed the world (for better or worse), and there's no way anyone could have predicted the outcome with any confidence at the time.

Perhaps Vision Pro will be a success and usher in a new revolution in technology, or perhaps it will only ever be a niche device, or maybe it flops altogether in a short amount of time. No one can say for sure how things will play out until it happens.

What if the person with the Vision Pro got it to help with a physical disability, and it has greatly improved their quality of life? Or what if it was gifted to them by a now passed friend or family member, and now holds a great deal of sentimental value to that individual? Do you not agree that criticizing in these (and likely many other) instances would be an asshole move on your part?

You don't know how or why they obtained it, and their possession of it does not harm you in any way, shape, or form. Do you still not agree that being vocally and directly critical of the other person's simple possession of this item is an asshole move?

Why did they submit this as a pull request in the first place? Just commit it to a WIP branch until it’s ready to merge. Am I missing something?

I would define them as follows:

• Declaration: This thing exists.
• Definition: Here are the details for how this thing works.
• Initialization: Assign the initial state to this thing.
• Assignment: The value of this thing is now X.

I keep getting an invalid address on my devices, but I'm really interested in watching this. Is there any other link or am I doing something wrong?