@matigo It's been many years since I last did anything significant to my main machine. One thing I haven't done over the years is maintained a file to track all those little hidden preferences that I've toggled here and there.
It'll be nice to start afresh in any case.
It's going to be a very busy weekend.
Ordered a new SSD and some RAM for the ageing Mac Pro and planning to install from scratch for the first time since 2006. Need to get a bash script written to do the hard work.
Day 1 of revision week (for which I took a week off from work): procrastination is very real. I'm halfway into the lengthiest analysis of a poem I've written since secondary school.
Wordsworth's "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" [rpo.library.utoronto.ca] is a beautiful one though.
Hmm. Took me 5 minutes to realise I was referencing the wrong variable. Too much whisky?
MVP achieved for the scraper anyway. Commit done and time for bed….
Looks like, with this site, I won't even have to use Selenium with chromedriver to bypass bot protection — curl alone seems to do the job. Just a matter of extracting the json and parsing it.
Was going to go to bed, but I don't think I'll be able to sleep until I have a nice glass of whisky and a few lines (literally) of Python committed.
@matigo If you don't execute a line of code, it can't fail, and statistically one could argue that most code written shouldn't be executed, so your earlier post was accurate, in a way.
Or something.
It looks like a lot of sites that normally hide product reviews behind a paywall nevertheless manage to reveal their content in full thanks to Google's ld+json structured data format [developers.google.com].
Which basically makes scraping these websites ridiculously easy.
And there I was thinking only one site (for whose JSON I've already written a parser) made things so simple….