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The usual case I run in to is that a site will block requests with User-Agent header strings that don't at least try to look like a regular browser, or that appear on some list of …

Once I created the structure to support lots of different kinds of scraping-to-feed conversions, it’s usually fast to add a new target site in to the mix. There are definitely exce…

Articles should not have images that are misleading or confusing, but I do understand why most news articles have something when it comes to imagery. Most news website designs are …

Google has historically provided an unofficial endpoint to access an RSS feed of videos for a given YouTube channel, at "https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=your_id…

I wrote about trying to do this for Facebook page events as an example. Code sample included: https://chrishardie.com/2019/10/unlocking-community-events-f...

I believe there is a middle ground between hate speech being "allowed-but-not-thriving" and censorship, and I think we can do a better job of finding it than we do now.