Anyone have recommendation for how I can scrap a website, and extract unique names – such as product names.

I was thinking of using some website scrapping tool, then a local LLM to find unique product names.

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    15 hours ago

    Usually you’d have to be the owner or operator of a website to scrap it. I guess hacking into the server and deleting all data would also work.

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      15 hours ago

      I was thinking of doing it once a day. Even if I have to manually initiate it to be legal. It would only be for personal non-public nor commercial reasons.

      It would save me time from manually copying the HTML over to an LLM or something.

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        13 hours ago

        I was joking about your use of scrap and scrapping, as in to remove or to cancel :)

        Web scraping only has one p

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        14 hours ago

        Just read the robots.txt and obey the rules. Also set your user agent string properly. We’ve had crawlers forever on the internet and that’s the long accepted way to give consent or revoke consent, for website owners. Either you match a disallow directive and need to stop. Or you’re completely fine to scrape it.