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by the_other_guy 2818 days ago
I think comments here are unfairly harsh. I really like this innovative idea of having a dedicated language. If it can see client-side rendered HTML (e.g. React, Vue, etc...), that would be a whole another level for me since I don't think this has been made before.
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It can! :)

Even more - it can interact with these pages! Here is an example of use of Google Search page: https://github.com/MontFerret/ferret/blob/master/docs/exampl...

Wow, thank you. Now I am absolutely in love with your tool!
Great! ^_^
I feel the same here, architecturally I've never liked scrapers which are tightly coupled within a service. Websites are prone to sudden change and it seems unsustainable to redeploy each time a selector changes, it's pretty innovative to leverage the power of *QL for this sort of problem.
Yes! This is one of the reasons why I wanted to be able making these changes without redeploying the whole thing!