On: AnyTracker: Track any number on any website

[ssss11]

Does this use scraping? Trying to understand how it works

[dev_at → ssss11]

Yes, it uses scraping. The algorithms used are very general in order to make it work on any website.

[ssss11 → dev_at]

Yeah it’s interesting that you’ve got it to work on any website… well done

[dev_at → ssss11]

Thank you!

[WendyTheWillow → ssss11]

url + xpath works anywhere

[_u2yk → WendyTheWillow]

Until the path changes...

[WendyTheWillow → _u2yk]

Yep, that’s a challenge! But the impressiveness is in solving that, not in getting it to work on every website.