your periodic reminder that screen scraping is the absolute worst
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Replying to @tpolecat
If by screen scraping you mean web scraping, fun fact of the day: my first non-trivial program was writing the world's crappiest web scraper/crawler in Python
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Replying to @adelbertchang
Scraping a web front-end for a telnet program. The preferred automation strategy is `expect` scripts. If you feel like shaking your fist at JPL I won't stop you.
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Replying to @tpolecat @adelbertchang
i'm not sure what this all means but my condolences
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