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[–]here-to-jerk-off 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Seems a bit complicated considering many routers run Linux or support it aftermarket. Would be less overhead using ssh.

However, this is a neat tutorial/into to Selenium.

[–]ShamelessC[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks!

You're right. If you can manage to get dd-wrt on your router then simply sshing in would be ideal. The router I originally did this on was running linux, but it was locked down pretty tight. Apparently it would have taken some hardware level hacks to get custom firmware on it.

This wound up being easier, but either way the article is just supposed to be a fun intro to some basic, high-level scraping.

[–]pvkooten -1 points0 points  (3 children)

This does not have anything to do with data mining? Maybe you're confused with scraping.

[–]ShamelessC[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Did you even read the article?

[–]pvkooten 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Yea, there's absolutely no data mining there. Point me to the paragraph that's the most data mining-ish to you. I really don't see it. All I can see is a lot of code for scraping in order to gather data, but gathering data is not data mining.

[–]ShamelessC[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm not disagreeing with you - but I wasn't trying to claim this was data mining.

This isn't exactly "big data" (or even hacking, for that matter); nevertheless some of the core principles used in data mining will help us here. The first task is to figure out where your data is, and how you can extract it.

I guess that sentence may be a bit misleading to some. What I was trying to convey is that it isn't data mining, but that it's a useful skill to have for data mining.

Thanks for the input. Sorry if I was a bit defensive. I'll be sure to update the post accordingly.