It’s a tool that basically pretends to be a user, it opens the website just like you and i other users do. It collects the data (images text videos) just by browsing around.
They used to be prolific, but the problem is that they use a lot of resources on the website’s end. Instead big website owners started offering public APIs which allow bots to collect data without taxing the server too much
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changing reddit.com to safereddit.com works
Safereddit is https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib
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What does a scrapper mean?
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Oh OK. Thanks for the correction and description.
It’s a tool that basically pretends to be a user, it opens the website just like you and
iother users do. It collects the data (images text videos) just by browsing around.They used to be prolific, but the problem is that they use a lot of resources on the website’s end. Instead big website owners started offering public APIs which allow bots to collect data without taxing the server too much
Thank you for explaining.
Stealth still works for me
Me too, some people have been saying it no longer does for them though.
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