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cphoover on Jan 17, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Plus – Self-updating screenshots

Any plans to actually scrape the data instead of just the images? Having the actual data saved in a tabular format would really make this a killer product... You could probably do this by finding the elements within your selection and parsing the rendered HTML.

Images are great but for doing anything more complex than just viewing charts scraping the data would be a huge plus

ed_mercer on Jan 17, 2023 | [–]

What’s your usecase? Can you define “more complex”?

cphoover on Jan 18, 2023 | | [–]

Say I want to plug historical data into a predictive model?

Or a probably another common potential use-case... I want to create an alert if a value is above/below a certain threshold.

yigitkonur35 on Jan 17, 2023 | [–]

Yes. This is what we need too

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