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Show HN: Pipet – CLI tool for scraping and extracting data online, with pipes


a swiss-army tool for scraping and extracting data from online assets, made for hackers - GitHub - bjesus/pipet: a swiss-army tool for scraping and extracting data from online assets, made for hac...

You can use Pipet to track a shipment, get notified when concert tickets are available, stock price changes, and any other kind of information that appears online. This is meant so that you can use your browser to find the request containing the information you are interested in, right click it, choose "Copy as cURL", and paste in your Pipet file. Simple Playwright exampleThis example will return a string like 80 stars, 2 watching, 2 forks after visiting the Pipet repo on Github.

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