Exactly, some of us use scrapers because while we can't go full Richard Stallman, we also don't want to visually sift through ridiculous UI just to look at some basic data/text.
> we also don't want to visually sift through ridiculous UI just to look at some basic data/text
Yeah.
First scraper I ever built was for my school portal. Absolutely atrocious user interface. It got to the point that I seriously hated that site so I built a script to log into it and download my information. I just wanted to see my grades without suffering.
Yeah.
First scraper I ever built was for my school portal. Absolutely atrocious user interface. It got to the point that I seriously hated that site so I built a script to log into it and download my information. I just wanted to see my grades without suffering.