Tired of bookmarking pages? Scrap it instead …
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Tired of bookmarking webpages? Scrap it instead …I am guilty of bookmarking a ton of tutorials but never opening them again. I am one of those who prefer a pdf version or a book over a mountain of web pages as bookmarks or tabs stored in OneTab.I was refreshing my Operating Systems concepts recently from my favorite site ▻https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/operating-systems/.Though I loved learning OS, what I didn’t like was having to open weblinks one after other according to the topic. I wanted to have all the content of the pages as a single file for my perusal. Following that was my attempt at automating the process of ‘extracting text from websites’ aka web scraping. The use cases for web scraping are limitless. Like checking for flight fares, monitoring the stock prices, product prices (...)
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