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In case you want to import some random website data into Google Sheets, the obvious way to start this exciting adventure is to use importXML() function. The main advantage is that this function is available in Google Sheets out of the box! IMPORTXML Syntax The syntax for the IMPORTXML function
ScrapeNinja Scraping API recently got an exciting feature called Extractors. Extractors are pieces of user-supplied Javascript code which are executed in ScrapeNinja backend so ScrapeNinja returns pure JSON with data, from any HTML webpage in the world. This feature alone, with ScrapeNinja web-based IDE do write extractors, can shave off
Cheerio is a de-facto standard to parse HTML in a server-side Javascript (Node.js) now. It is a fast, flexible, and lean implementation of jQuery-like syntax designed specifically for the server. Github: https://github.com/cheeriojs/cheerio Stars: 25.8K NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/package/cheerio Cheerio is a
Have you ever wondered what is the best blockchain to send USDT and why Ethereum blockchain is so expensive (is it?) in terms of gas fees, and what is the best alternative? I did. So, this is my new weekend project. It was built using 11ty for landing website, and
Let's say you want to sign some PDF with you "real" human signature. Of course you can draw your signature using your mouse or touchpad, but this "fully digital" signature usually turns out to be really ugly and pale version of your slick signature you are used to write when
This lately became a pretty popular question when scraping with Puppeteer: let's say you want to interact with the page (e.g. click the button) and retrieve the raw ajax response (usually, JSON). Why would you want to do this? This is actually an interesting "hybrid" approach to extracting data
