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by xz18r 895 days ago
I'm someone who regularly scrapes websites and uses bs4 to format the data. Admittedly it takes me some time to get what I want exactly, but the past year ChatGPT has _drastically_ sped up the creation of my scripts. Given that I am your target audience, why would I pay a pretty steep 39USD for something I can do myself in 30 minutes - and without limits? There is a high correlation between scraping websites and being tech-savvy enough to produce a (simple) script to do so. The only reason I'd consider buying your product is if I have to do this so often that it would save me the time of writing ONLY the bs4 part of my scraping script (which is often the easy part; websites are awfully incoherent and buggy), but that would only happen if I wanted to scrape vastly more than 25k "lines in a csv" (which is what I assume 1 credit gives you, but is never explained).
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Perhaps they wish to create a new market?