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		jmduke on March 11, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Python web scraping This is really cool -- particularly hxselect -- but I don't see how it's particularly simpler than using Python/requests. How would you handle following links and deduping visited URLs via piping?

joyofdata on March 11, 2014 [–]

Thanks - well recursive downloading of a web-page using wget is no big deal at all. And regarding particularly simpler - it is particularly shorter and pretty clear what's going on.

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