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by welanes 2115 days ago
The beautiful thing about web scraping is that it automates so much tedious work that the benefits in saved time offsets the brittleness inherent in scraping data.

And with Puppeteer (also Playwright) it's never been easier. Recaptcha solving, Ad blocking etc. in just a few lines of code[1].

I've built a business on the back of Puppeteer - https://simplescraper.io. Ten months in and we've just passed 100 customers so there's mucho opportunities in solving these kind of problems.

[1] https://github.com/berstend/puppeteer-extra/tree/master/pack...

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This looks useful! Thanks for sharing. It reminds me of KimonoLabs, which I loved before it was acquired by Palantir and shut down.