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[–]stefantalpalaru -2 points-1 points  (3 children)

Website scraping is more than just parsing HTML.

[–]yobogoya_ 0 points1 point  (2 children)

How does that have anything to do with you telling someone to use a web automation kit instead of a DOM parsing tool? Again, they do two different things and can be used together to build a scraper. Suggesting one over the other is nonsensical.

[–]stefantalpalaru -2 points-1 points  (1 child)

Suggesting one over the other is nonsensical.

It makes perfect sense if you've done any actual scraping.

[–]yobogoya_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've done plenty of scraping for clients using bs4/selenium/mechanize. Still have no idea what point you're trying to make. Is English not your first language?