Category Archives: web scraping

More “Scraping Ethics Gone Awry” and “Why Do This When There’s a Free API?”

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I can’t seem to free my infrequently-viewed email inbox from “you might like!” notices by the content-lock-in site Medium. This one made it to the iOS notification screen (otherwise I’d’ve been blissfully unaware of it and… Continue reading More “Scraping Ethics Gone Awry” and “Why Do This When There’s a Free API?”→

Introducing ‘gepetto’ — a Splash-like REST API to Headless Chrome

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It’s been over a year since Headless Chrome was introduced and it has matured greatly over that time and has acquired a pretty large user base. The TLDR on it is that you can now use Chrome as you would any command-line interface (CLI) program an… Continue reading Introducing ‘gepetto’ — a Splash-like REST API to Headless Chrome→

In-brief: splashr update + High Performance Scraping with splashr, furrr & TeamHG-Memex’s Aquarium

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The development version of splashr now support authenticated connections to Splash API instances. Just specify user and pass on the initial splashr::splash() call to use your scraping setup a bit more safely. For those not familiar with splashr and/or … Continue reading In-brief: splashr update + High Performance Scraping with splashr, furrr & TeamHG-Memex’s Aquarium→

Yet-Another-Power Outages Post : Full Tidyverse Edition

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This past weekend, violent windstorms raged through New England. We — along with over 500,000 other Mainers — went “dark” in the wee hours of Monday morning and (this post was published on Thursday AM) we still have no utility-provided power nor high-speed internet access. The children have turned iFeral, and being a remote worker… Continue reading →

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