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== Criticism == |
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The task, as described and the examples so far are extremely weak by comparison to one's normal expectations of what "web scraping" means. The examples |
The task, as described and the examples so far are extremely weak by comparison to one's normal expectations of what "web scraping" means. The examples just pull a page and extract a line of text using simple regular expressions. |
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When developers talk about "web scraping" they are usually talking about much more than simply fetching the page and doing trivial extraction of a simple regular expression. Usually the task implies more sophisticated parsing of the page's HTML and frequently involves encoding the request into a query string (ReSTful sites) or an HTTP POST-able form. |
When developers talk about "web scraping" they are usually talking about much more than simply fetching the page and doing trivial extraction of a simple regular expression. Usually the task implies more sophisticated parsing of the page's HTML and frequently involves encoding the request into a query string (ReSTful sites) or an HTTP POST-able form. |
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