AmyShackles

4y

That feeling when you’re scraping a website to build an API and your script downloads 4049/6170 pages before failing and you have to rewrite it so that puppeteer hits the next button 4049 times before executing the script. 😅

This database is so frustrating.

I hate this website (the one I’m scraping).

It’s going to be so satisfying when this is finished.

rant

puppeteer

another terrible side project

api

bash

parsing

database

Ranter

Comments

1

IntrusionCM

14751

4y

What. The. Fuck.
3

vane

11052

4y

I cache pages on hard drive and download those that are not there.
It’s faster and disk space is cheap.
0

skylord

220

4y

*Imperial Guard voice* Stop right there, criminal scum!
0

Demolishun

35049

4y

@skylord Its the Grey Fox!
0

iiii

9085

4y

Or just notice that there's a pattern in requests and try requesting the 4049 page directly 😣
2

iiii

9085

4y

@vane the problem is there's no direct pagination with a URL. There's a shitty sort of one page application made with ASP.

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