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About 8chanAnon
https://8chananon.github.io
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Comment #41780311
Third article in a series. Explores eval and self-invoking functions.
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Show HN: Web Scraping with Your Web Browser: Bot Challenges
Second article in a series. Interesting info regarding Cloudflare.
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Comment #41724421
My next article will be on the topic of bypassing the Cloudflare bot protection. You can then compare with how Selenium handles this problem (if at all).
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Comment #41715530
Every dark mode site in existence should fail that test.
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Comment #41715482
>Some walled garden sites seem completely unscrapable Any examples besides Linkedin? Tell me what sites you're trying to target and I'll have a look to see what can be done with th…
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Comment #41715004
WASM runs in a sandbox. It can only talk to the outside world via Javascript so you can forget the idea that it might be a way to crack through browser security. Maybe somebody wil…
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Comment #41714954
Is there a happy in-between? Maybe not. What looks perfect to one user might appear atrocious to another. What is a poor website operator to do??? I dislike black-on-white and don'…
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Comment #41714183
Red text on yellow - you mean the website? Would you like the text to be darker? And Beautiful Soup should be BeautifulSoup. Who makes the rules?
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Comment #41714159
I see. I don't have a wide-screen monitor (still using an old tube type until it finally expires but it's taking a few decades, lol). I've wondered whether people actually like rea…
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Comment #41713906
>bad formatting If you can elaborate, I would very much appreciate it. I'm always interested in doing better. Why use Puppeteer etc. when you don't have to? What is the argument fo…
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Comment #41713862
Rather long so I'll read it later. Thanks for the tip. Got more or is that it?
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Web scraping with your web browser: Why not?
Includes working code. First article in a planned series.
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Comment #41613737
I voted "light" because there is no "medium" option. Why is it a choice between gray-on-black or black-on-white? I would choose a "color" mode if there was such an option on the ta…
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Comment #41613616
I've been asking the same question myself though I'm not trying to get paying customers. I'm offering free stuff but I can't get many takers. One customer per 1000 views is pretty …
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Comment #41060372
I've updated the app to remove the user agent string so that the link will not redirect to "m.youtube.com". I hope that's all that's needed to fix this.
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Comment #41059750
Youtube just changed their code. The app is not currently working. Coincidence? I might have to wait a bit to see what else gets changed. Sorry about that. Update: Fixed! Will keep…
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Comment #41059656
I have information that Youtube is redirecting from "www.youtube.com" to "m.youtube.com" when it detects a mobile user agent. The page data that is returned appears to be incompati…
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Comment #41058910
I have no idea what the potential compatibility issues might be with mobile. This has only been tested on PC. Any way to provide debugging info?
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Comment #41058359
Hmm. The title was supposed to be "YouTube Player app in your browser". Why was the word "your" replaced with "the"?
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Show HN: YouTube Player App in the Browser
The app bypasses ads and age-gating. Very fast. This is just a scaled-down sample taken from a larger project. For more information: https://8chananon.github.io
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Comment #40019999
Who uses the Start Menu? I click on that maybe once in a blue moon to maybe uninstall something. This is just another reason to start doing the Linux thing once this Win10 machine …
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Comment #40019915
The strong nuclear force is a figment of the physicists' imaginations. Likewise the weak nuclear force, dark matter and dark energy. The Standard Model does not align with reality …
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Comment #40019545
I sympathize. The task is easily accomplished with a properly coded regular expression but, damn, regex is haaaard. Also, there are too many gotchas in parsing random text. It's a …