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Scrapping websites and finding unique values
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this post was submitted on 07 May 2026
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Usually you'd have to be the owner or operator of a website to scrap it. I guess hacking into the server and deleting all data would also work.
I was thinking of doing it once a day. Even if I have to manually initiate it to be legal. It would only be for personal non-public nor commercial reasons.
It would save me time from manually copying the HTML over to an LLM or something.
Just read the robots.txt and obey the rules. Also set your user agent string properly. We've had crawlers forever on the internet and that's the long accepted way to give consent or revoke consent, for website owners. Either you match a disallow directive and need to stop. Or you're completely fine to scrape it.
Neat, I've never heard of these.
I was joking about your use of scrap and scrapping, as in to remove or to cancel :)
Web scraping only has one p