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Honestly, I meant no harm. I saw that we were talking about web scraping in other languages like PHP and Python, and I wanted to add on to the idea above that Factor doesn't really provide additional value than any other implementation of the job in another language would. They equally share the same overhead associated with web scraping activity that must lay on the shoulder of the developer. All in all, I wanted to highlight that one shouldn't put so much effort into creating web scrapers, and suggested a different tool that is specialized for the same job mentioned in the article.


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