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Be me

Need to fetch data from a website for project I'm working on

Look for an API with no luck

Spend 2 weeks developing a ridiculously overengineered and slow webscraping program with Selenium

Find an API

Fuck this

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  • 0
    Eh, one easy trick to not suffer and still make shit code is to stay away from webdev and maybe even android app dev and anything with JS in general
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    I sympathize, I had to do that with prior contract dealing with that kind of development, the site never provided API however, so you were lucky in that regard.
  • 0
    Hey, definitely interested in the kind of data you're looking for. Would it be, by any means, related to guitar tabs or music chords ?
  • 1
    @Lonchampt I was trying to get swimming results from USASwimming. They do have them on the website, but you have to search manually, hence the suspected need for selenium
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