Why not just let the program get that value?
If my config has side effects I wouldn't be confident that my program would run the same each time. To me it seems like this would lead to poor reproducibility.
How would the program get the value? It has to pack all of the scraping frameworks and abstract it so it could be interacted enough for text configs? Then it would have more scraping code than whatever program intended to do.
> To me it seems like this would lead to poor reproducibility.
I'm not sure how reproducibility matter here. You're not writing tests - it's a program on your computer for your personal use.
> To me it seems like this would lead to poor reproducibility.
I'm not sure how reproducibility matter here. You're not writing tests - it's a program on your computer for your personal use.