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SerpApi is the leading API to scrape and parse search engine results. We deeply support Google, Google Maps, Google Images, Bing, Baidu, and a lot more.
Our current stack is Ruby, Rails, MongoDB, and React.JS. We are looking for a Creative Director and a Senior Engineer. For the Creative Director position, we're looking for someone to give us a strong visual direction and experience in CSS, JS, or React are definitely plusses but not required.
We have an awesome work environment: We are a remote first company (before Covid!). We do continuous integration, continuous deployments, code reviews, code pairings, profit sharing, and most of communication is async via GitHub.
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> The google search function is also limited. For comparison, SerpAPI masterfully scrapes Google Search using a proxy network and very intelligent parsing. In experiments using SerpAPI in combination with Microsoft’s guidance module, I got much farther than AutoGPT.
This is a very interesting point of view. Can you describe it more in detail or share links to read about the topic "orthogonal cartesian view of the world vs others"?
I don't think I have any links. It is just something I am noticing after 13 some years in big tech.
And unfortunately, I don't think I can "describe it in detail" as that's what the ego wants. That's the whole point, the ego wants to hear the details and then argue with the details.
Details often times make a lot of sense, while the end result does not.
The U.S. Tax Code is 6,871 pages. When you include the federal tax regulations and the official tax guidance, the number of pages raises to approximately 75,000.
Every single word has to be there, because it is solving some corner case.
Imagine, a json parsing library 50k LOC in C++ that can be cross compiled on most of the platforms.
Every single LOC (line of code) needs to be there.
These are creations of the ego (and orthogonal cartesian view). That's the dominant ideology in our world, it works very very well.
PS: Everybody knows, you could just parse your little json with `strnstr()`, and somehow we believe that amending cmake anytime it breaks is more meaningful than having spaghetti code calling strnstr that just magically works.
I was debugging the Bing Image Search. Ctrl+Shift+F in the browser dev tools din't work to find the request by contents. I've used mitmproxy and then found a up-to-date way to filter responses by string in contents in the devtools.
This post contains steps to understand "where the data is coming from in the web app". Please share your feedback.
Selectors are typically more concise and easier for developers to use if they have front end development experience. XPath has marginal benefits over it, like referencing parents/ancestors, but you can often construct a selector to target the elements you want anyways. But since they are so similar, it really comes down to what you work faster with
Hey everyone, in this episode we've discussed data extraction from [dynamic web pages][1] without using a browser. Specifically, from Google Maps and Walmart.
It was fun discussing this topic. Please share your feedback about this episode.
Our current stack is Ruby, Rails, MongoDB, and React.JS. We are looking for a Creative Director and a Senior Engineer. For the Creative Director position, we're looking for someone to give us a strong visual direction and experience in CSS, JS, or React are definitely plusses but not required.
We have an awesome work environment: We are a remote first company (before Covid!). We do continuous integration, continuous deployments, code reviews, code pairings, profit sharing, and most of communication is async via GitHub.
We value super strongly transparency, do open books, have a public roadmap, and contribute to the EFF.
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