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> You do if you want to scrape what you're reading on your mobile devices too, or you need to write an app for every platform (like I mentioned). Safari on iOS won't let you do that.

It's possible you are desiring too much. This is one of those cases where you should consider the case of diminishing returns.

That said, unless you wanted to aim for 100% (I advise against), then just use Chrome or another app on your iDevice and the history is automatically synced to your non-mobile device, where you can leverage the previous trick to scrape those sites. No need for an external app.

> Copyright is an issue if you're planning on selling this as a service or distributing it as open source (like youtube-dl).

Sure, but that's a completely different tangent from your current scenario. However, it is still very much possible with slightly different strategies.



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