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Didn't work for me so I followed the link to https://git.io/googler-no-results . It looks like it uses a screen scraper. That does not seem like a viable solution to me.


I'm a maintainer of googler (though I haven't put in much work for quite a while) and the author of the linked document. No, it doesn't use a screen scraper, and I don't know how you even got that idea.


Is this perhaps a semantics issue? The linked document mentions parsing HTML, and that layout updates can break it. How would you describe the way googler operates?

Edit: Would ”web scraping” be a more apt description?


Yes, it's a scraper extracting results from HTML. Which is very different from a screen scraper...




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