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“This industry makes scraping available to individuals and companies that otherwise would not have the capabilities.” - seems like web scraping companies are doing a good job :)


The phone charger makes engery available to individuals and companies that otherwise would not have the capabilities. ;)


Maybe some irony here as IIRC Facebook started as essentially a scraping company, pulling student profiles from college websites and re-publishing it for their own profit.

The scrapers have become the scrapees. The horror.


Looks interesting. Will try the script for web scraping.


I think that if you don’t want to invest a lot of time into learning web scraping and money to get a pool of residential, or even better mobile, proxies it’s easy to quickly get good results with web scraping API like https://scrapingfish.com They have good blogposts, for example, for how to scrape public Instagram profiles: https://scrapingfish.com/blog/scraping-instagram


I don’t see this happening. If you know rust you can use it elsewhere.


I didn’t find so many crypto job offers for python. But your right, I’m curious how it looks for go or cpp.


I was looking for a rust job recently and got the same impression that most of them are in crypto :|


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