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Here are some ways you could do it:
Here are some ways you could do it:


A pure Google-Sheets-based approach, which can be set to run hourly, daily, or on other schedules:
* A pure Google-Sheets-based approach, which can be set to run hourly, daily, or on other schedules: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3684733/how-to-create-automatically-updating-google-sheet.html
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3684733/how-to-create-automatically-updating-google-sheet.html
* A pure GitHub-based approach (exploiting GitHub actions): https://simonwillison.net/2020/Oct/9/git-scraping/
 
** [https://githubnext.com/projects/flat-data Flat Data] - An extensions of Simon Willison's git-scraping that includes a GUI for viewing the captured data (as long as it's stored in a public GitHub repo)
A pure GitHub-based approach (exploiting GitHub actions):
https://simonwillison.net/2020/Oct/9/git-scraping/

Latest revision as of 18:37, 15 February 2023

So you want to scrape data from some web page on a regular basis, huh?

Here are some ways you could do it: