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by dyrl 2307 days ago
More and more I feel like we should be simulating a human by macroing an actual typical web browser, including macroing the browser's dev tools.

(When scraping is fragile and you may have to periodically maintain scripts anyway, this is my conclusion after trying to automate a React website using recently-mentioned lib taiko, and finding it to be hit & miss, although it probably speaks more to my inexperience in general.)