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by jstoiko
4463 days ago
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Can anyone give a real-life example where this visual tool would be useful? Not that I dont believe in scraping (we do it too: https://github.com/brandicted/scrapy-webdriver). I know Google has a similar tool called Data Highlighter (in Google Webmaster Tools) which is used by non-technical webmasters to tell Google bot where to find the structured data in the page source of a website. It makes sense at Google's scale however I fail to see in which other cases this would be useful considering the drawbacks: some pages may have a different structure, javascript not always properly loaded, etc. Therefor requiring the intervention of a technical person... |
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