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diggernaut··on Bypassing website anti-scraping protections
They recently removed User Agent and CSRF token from signature creation process. Right now used only rhx_gis parameter and URL decoded variables from query string to generate MD5 signature. However, your findings about user agents looks interesting. I assume they may use user agent to generate rhx_gis. It could explain why auth doesnt work if you change single char in user agent.
diggernaut··on Ask HN: Rest api authorization
you can (and should :)) use it (token auth) with ssl. To get SSL is not a problem today, and will cost you nothing if you use letsencrypt.org
diggernaut··on Show HN: Diggernaut – Turn website content into data sets
Thank you guys for all these feedback for using website on mobile, we fixed index page, video should work now on phones, so as price list and also footer. And now fixing signup page for mobiles :)
diggernaut··on Show HN: Diggernaut – Turn website content into data sets
thank you for your opinion, we noted it. By the way you are paying for using cloud resources, not for using technology, you can compile digger, download it and run for free at your own server or computer. And you can do it with free plan. So Im not really sure why we are discussing cost of our subscription plans :) We are in beta, so we would really appreciate some feedback about user experiece when they using website, visual extractor, or compiled diggers. Legal side of web scraping is heavily depends on country you live in.
diggernaut··on Show HN: Diggernaut – Turn website content into data sets
Thanks a lot, we are working on a long list of changes to make make mobile users experience better, added your feedback to the list
diggernaut··on Show HN: Diggernaut – Turn website content into data sets
Thank you for your feedback, we will check and fix this issue shortly
diggernaut··on Ask HN: Go or Python? Expanding my toolbelt
It actually depends on what you going to do with your knowledge, Go is definitely more efficient and faster than Python, on other hand Python is more popular, easier to use, has bigger set of available libraries.
diggernaut··on Ask HN: How to get started with machine learning?
You can start with free coursera course https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning/, it starts 17 oct

and then continue with https://www.coursera.org/learn/neural-networks/