Below are posts associated with the “web scraping” tag.
🔗 linkblog: Bluesky, AI, and the battle for consent on the open web'
Lots of interesting reflections here.
a local news dilemma
A while ago, the RSS feeds for my local newspaper stopped working (at least with my feed reader), which caused me some consternation as I tried to decide whether to build a workaround or just give up on the Herald-Leader. I believe in supporting local news, so I’ve wanted to find a technical solution to this, but a lot of the decision making is out of my hands, and I don’t really have time on my hands to build myself the kind of webscraper that would be fun to try out.
🔗 linkblog: Major critic of X sues after being banned from platform | Ars Technica'
The headline obscures something important—that this is about research, access to data, and Terms of Service. Worrying stuff.