finder
CSS Selector Generator 🗺 (by antonmedv)
twitter-tracking
A small system to collect a Twitter user's activity data. (by alxgrk)
| finder | twitter-tracking | |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | 3 | |
| 1,301 | 1 | |
| - | - | |
| 5.0 | 0.0 | |
| 3 months ago | over 3 years ago | |
| HTML | Kotlin | |
| MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
finder
Posts with mentions or reviews of finder.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-07.
- Show HN: Finder – CSS Selector Generator
- Release of Finder 3.0: the CSS selector generator
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Automating web scrapers generation
Luckily there are some tools and libraries that can help. This, for example, is an excellent project that generates CSS selectors that are stable and robust. It searches the entire DOM tree for unique selectors, assigns them scores, and returns the best choice.
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Tracking Twitter User Behavior - The Browser Extension
Concerning clicks, however, a little more fiddling is required. Unfortunately, Twitter HTML tags are almost all divs with randomized classnames. The only anchor are semantic tags like article, rare element IDs and the attribute data-testid. Luckily, with these and a great tool named @medv/finder, I was able to create RegExes that match the found selector to my predefined click types. So for any click events, the finder is run...
twitter-tracking
Posts with mentions or reviews of twitter-tracking.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-02-01.
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Tracking Twitter User Behavior - The Browser Extension
Since we now have everything ready to build our artifacts, we need to make sure that Chrome, Firefox, etc. permit their installation. To achieve this, we need two different tools: web-ext for Firefox and chromium for Chrome. Check out this script for an example on how to use them. Also, make sure to follow the instructions on publishing extensions for Firefox and for Chrome.
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Tracking Twitter User Behavior - The Model
For those who haven't read the first post: here is the code involved.
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Tracking Twitter User Behavior - The Overview
For those who don't want to wait for the solution: check out the source code of the whole infrastructure here.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing finder and twitter-tracking you can also consider the following projects:
css-selector-generator-benchmark - benchmark for various JavaScript libraries for generating CSS selectors
viddy - Find DOM elements using an expressive query syntax, extract text and monitor changes.