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There are a number of tools built to extract the content from those kinds of pages, did the author try any or just start YOLOing Python scripts?

When you can count your lines of Python code on your fingers, it's probably faster to just write up a script than it is to search for existing software.

I don't think that's the point of the article though. The author is criticizing the rise of bloated webpages with very little good content.

Or not so much that, but the practice of putting terrible content up and funding it by selling someone else's soul to the advertising apparatus. And then demanding that you give up that soul, in order to fund "high quality content".

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