Shot-scraper Alternatives

shot-scraper reviews and mentions

• I want to create IMDB for Open source projects
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Apr 2024

  I had one of these recently! https://github.com/simonw/shot-scraper/pull/133/files

  They're /incredibly/ rare though.

• 2024-03-01 listening in on the neighborhood
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Mar 2024

  If anyone wants the raw data, it's available in window._Flourish_data variable on https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/16818696/embed

  Which means you can extract it with my https://shot-scraper.datasette.io/ tool like this:

      shot-scraper javascript \

• Web Scraping in Python – The Complete Guide
  11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Feb 2024

  I strongly recommend adding Playwright to your set of tools for Python web scraping. It's by far the most powerful and best designed browser automation tool I've ever worked with.

  I use it for my shot-scraper CLI tool: https://shot-scraper.datasette.io/ - which lets you scrape web pages directly from the command line by running JavaScript against pages to extract JSON data: https://shot-scraper.datasette.io/en/stable/javascript.html

• A command-line utility for taking automated screenshots of websites
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Dec 2023
• Don’t Build a General Purpose API to Power Your Own Front End (2021)
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Aug 2023

  This is exactly what the `Accept` HTTP header is for https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Ac...

  I think the author is generally correct that all JSON should be provided in a single request, but if you want to prove it, then you should be able to change your accept header to and from `application/json`/`text/html seeing nearly identical data.

  In fact, this is what both GitLab and Github do. Try it out!

  `curl -L https://github.com/simonw/shot-scraper` (text/html)

  `curl --header "Accept: application/json" -L https://github.com/simonw/shot-scraper` (application/json)

• Git scraping: track changes over time by scraping to a Git repository
  18 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Aug 2023

  Git is a key technology in this approach, because the value you get out of this form of scraping is the commit history - it's a way of turning a static source of information into a record of how that information changed over time.

  I think it's fine to use the term "scraping" to refer to downloading a JSON file.

  These days an increasing number of websites work by serving up JSON which is then turned into HTML by a client-side JavaScript app. The JSON often isn't a formally documented API, but you can grab it directly to avoid the extra step of processing the HTML.

  I do run Git scrapers that process HTML as well. A couple of examples:

  scrape-san-mateo-fire-dispatch https://github.com/simonw/scrape-san-mateo-fire-dispatch scrapes the HTML from http://www.firedispatch.com/iPhoneActiveIncident.asp?Agency=... and records both the original HTML and converted JSON in the repository.

  scrape-hacker-news-by-domain https://github.com/simonw/scrape-hacker-news-by-domain uses my https://shot-scraper.datasette.io/ browser automation tool to convert an HTML page on Hacker News into JSON and save that to the repo. I wrote more about how that works here: https://simonwillison.net/2022/Dec/2/datasette-write-api/

• Web Scraping via JavaScript Runtime Heap Snapshots (2022)
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Aug 2023
• Need help with downloading a section of multiple sites as pdf files.
  2 projects | /r/webscraping | 25 Mar 2023

  You can use shot-scraper: https://github.com/simonw/shot-scraper

• Ask HN: Small scripts, hacks and automations you're proud of?
  49 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Mar 2023

  I have a neat Hacker News scraping setup that I'm really pleased with.

  The problem: I want to know when content from one of my sites is submitted to Hacker News, and keep track of the points and comments over time. I also want to be alerted when it happens.

  Solution: https://github.com/simonw/scrape-hacker-news-by-domain/

  This repo does a LOT of things.

  It's an implementation of my Git scraping pattern - https://simonwillison.net/2020/Oct/9/git-scraping/ - in that it runs a script once an hour to check for more content.

  It scrapes https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=simonwillison.net (scraping the HTML because this particular feature isn't supported by the Hacker News API) using shot-scraper - a tool I built for command-line browser automation: https://shot-scraper.datasette.io/

  The scraper works by running this JavaScript against the page and recording the resulting JSON to the Git repository: https://github.com/simonw/scrape-hacker-news-by-domain/blob/...

  That solves the "monitor and record any changes" bit.

  But... I want alerts when my content shows up.

  I solve that using three more tools I built: https://datasette.io/ and https://datasette.io/plugins/datasette-atom and https://datasette.cloud/

  This script here runs to push the latest scraped JSON to my SQLite database hosted using my in-development SaaS platform, Datasette Cloud: https://github.com/simonw/scrape-hacker-news-by-domain/blob/...

  I defined this SQL view https://simon.datasette.cloud/data/hacker_news_posts_atom which shows the latest data in the format required by the datasette-atom plugin.

  Which means I can subscribe to the resulting Atom feed (add .atom to that URL) in NetNewsWire and get alerted when my content shows up on Hacker News!

  I wrote a bit more about how this all works here: https://simonwillison.net/2022/Dec/2/datasette-write-api/

• Show HN: Plus – Self Updating Screenshots
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Jan 2023

  Sounds a lot like Simon Willison's open source project shot-scraper

  https://github.com/simonw/shot-scraper

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