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Comment on Ask HN: Why is WolframAlpha serving rendered text images instead of plain text?

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To make you pay for the API.

The text is in the alt attribute of each image's HTML element. So it should be a breeze to scrape it.

its not like they hide the text that much though;

jsonArray.popups.i_0100_1 = {"stringified": "Brisbane,Queensland","mInput": "","mOutput": "", "popLinks": {"Brisbane, Queensland":"Brisbane"} };

Each image tag also has its source data embedded in its alt attribute.

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