How would you make an app that scrapes data off a website and displays it?

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  • Buoy-Scraper-Example

    Scrapes buoy data from https://glbuoys.glos.us/

    I put together an MVP for your backend: https://github.com/kylemusco/Buoy-Scraper-Example

  • SwiftSoup

    SwiftSoup: Pure Swift HTML Parser, with best of DOM, CSS, and jquery (Supports Linux, iOS, Mac, tvOS, watchOS)

    It has SPM support, Click File>Add Package, enter the github URL for SwiftSoup in the search field and add it and it should add it automatically. Then just import SwiftSoup and use it as described in the usage notes: https://github.com/scinfu/SwiftSoup

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