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		dotdi on Oct 12, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated? I would not equate scraping with periodic searching for a keyword. The problematic part is when you scrape data off of websites, and the owners don't want you to do it; as in, they would not even be happy if you manually copied that stuff into an excel file for fun or profit.

jcun4128 on Oct 12, 2017 [–]

I can see that, although automating to decrease views of a page(from checking by refresh)... I suppose the end result is sign up in this case.

So for me I'll set it up for them and them run it.

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