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When I have to do some really quick ad-hoc webscraping, I often just select all text on the page, copy it, and then switch to a terminal window where I build a pipeline that extracts the part I need (using pbpaste to access the clipboard). Very quick and dirty for when you just need to hit a few pages.

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