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dear websites that don’t load without javascript

:blobcatpuffyfux: fuck you

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@icedquinn web apps should use javascript; that's what it is for, and it is a decent language. But the VAST majority of websites are not web apps, and shouldn't try to be.

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@worldsendless it's just a forums. but you can't even view a page without javascript. which means now i gotta wrangle selenium or puppeteer which is obnoxious
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@icedquinn sounds like you are trying to scrape stuff, if you need automation tools?

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@worldsendless ye but now the selenium driver doesn't work

HTTP/1.1 405 Method Not Allowed

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@icedquinn They must really not want you scraping them!

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@worldsendless nah its issues getting the webdrivers to work. i guess the julia lib i found doesn't quite work
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@worldsendless i did manage to get the stack of julia->selenium->webdriver->browser to work and download a single thread page, and rip the posts. there's annoying "click to expand" parts too and some scrubbing. i got tired of working on it.

i maybe just want to read a 200 page thread on an ebook reader y'know :blobcatadorable:
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@icedquinn Oh, I understand that. So much learning that probably will have 0 value after this project... that's web scraping for you.

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@icedquinn How is Julia? That's one of those languages where I wouldn't even recognize its code of it was before me. Still the best for numerics, or are Go or Rust in the running? Or possibly even Python?

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"@icedquinn web apps should use javascript; that's what it is for, and it is a decent language. But the VAST majority of websites are not web apps, and shouldn't try to be."
This is what happens when something gets bastardized- it's no longer properly enjoyable. So I still stand with what Quinn said.

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