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Puppeteer tricks to write a bot/scrapper

9/6/2019 Tech and IT

I wrote a bot recently that does some actions after it authenticates with an account using puppeteer and it was incredibly easy.
In case you don't know what puppeteer does, well, it is simply a Node library to control Chromium or Chrome programmatically, now such a library can have many uses but I'll focus on what you need to know when writing a scrapper/bot.

The first thing to know is what kind of website you are dealing with, it is a traditional website or is more like a SPA type of website? A...

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My recent book reviews

Andrei's bookshelf: read

Before Us

by Nathan Hystad

In this second book, the three robots become much more than just sidekicks. They play a crucial role in the story, providing humor, emotional support, and even some unexpected twists. Their interactions with each other and the human char...

Below Us

by Nathan Hystad

I finished the book two recently. I am eager for the third in this series. The popularity of the book is warranted. The story is a bit more in the fantasy direction. That being said, the author seems to have fantastic character-building ...

Ogres

by Adrian Tchaikovsky

For me, it explores two engaging ideas. Firstly, that exploitation and oppression should and may lead to justifiable more outstanding forms of violence. And that personal goals can rarely trump class interests which may be a bit fantasy,...

Insurgency Harmony

by T.M. Clayton

Insurgency Harmony delves into one vision of how the long-term dynamics of insurgency can play on a future timeline. It might be further from plausibility and may hit close to contemporary politics, but it seems to encapsulate that many ...