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I've used this text autocomplete to autocomplete me a Python setup and to autocomplete automatically running it.

It that scrapes Hn it works. Ironically, it's why I'm here.



Why would you scrape HN when they offer free, generous API?


Autocomplete only 'knew' how to output a scraper...


Not true, I tried just now. Took 30 seconds of due diligence. You could have done this too. Do better.

The problem is they’ll do what you ask. And if you are the type of non-curious person who replies “ Autocomplete only 'knew' how to output a scraper...”, then you’ll tell it to make you a scraper instead of ask what your options are for getting HN data.


Okay, fair. I am using the API to scrape it.


Sounds like you didn't even know what your own tool was doing. This would be a prime example of why relying on autocomplete based tools makes you look like a fool.




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