webscrapbook VS metascraper

https://github.com/danny0838/webscrapbook/wiki/Intro haven't used myself but sounds interesting

For other questions about WebScrapBook, you can read the manual first, and you are also welcomed to raise an issue if you still have an unanswered question.

WebScrapBook just seems bloaty to me, but haven't tried it and have no need for my personal notes in the archives.

After a 5–year struggle, the tremendous migration of ScrapBook X to WebScrapBook is complete.

this extension for websites may help those who are backing up things though it can no do a full dump it is useful if you want to back up a specific page you are interested in https://github.com/danny0838/webscrapbook

Yep but there is a fallback to metascraper [0] which does check the HTML tags. However the fallback didn't work in case GPT returns a 1970 date -- I just fixed this! [1]

I think you can now remove the date from your post content and it should still work. If you submit your website again it should do a re-scrape if you changed the content text. Thanks for catching this :)

[0] https://metascraper.js.org/#/

[1] https://github.com/lindylearn/aboutideasnow/commit/8b0ea5b46...

200 {description: 'easily scrape metadata from an article on the web.', publisher: null, title: 'metascraper, easily scrape metadata from an article on the web.', url: 'https://metascraper.js.org'} [[Prototype]]: Object

I am using this library https://github.com/microlinkhq/metascraper but it doesn't catch it.

First of all, we'll use the got npm package to fetch the website content (feel free to use any other fetching library), and the metascraper npm package to extract the metadata:

> After that, pricing starts at $25 per month for up to 15,000 requests.

This is very expensive for any decent usage. I have used tools like metascraper for this purpose and it worked pretty well. Setup just requires throwing a tiny nodejs app on a raspberry pi or $5 server and that can handle tons of requests.

https://github.com/microlinkhq/metascraper