alt Hacker NewsYes: I find it surprising that this isn't a more widespread approach. It's how I've taught web scraping to my PhD students for some years.
Yes: I find it surprising that this isn't a more widespread approach. It's how I've taught web scraping to my PhD students for some years.
It’s not widespread because it’s much more complicated than making an http request and reading the results from the body. You don’t spin up a browser, much less the full GUI, unless it’s a last resort.