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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/52500169

This is a little bit of a wall of text but I hope it will be a nice sample for such a setup.

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[โ€“] eleijeep@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

scrap (third-person singular simple present scraps, present participle scrapping , simple past and past participle scrapped)

(transitive) To discard; to get rid of.

(transitive) To stop working on (a project or plan) indefinitely.

Synonyms: abort, cancel, mothball

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/scrap

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scrape (third-person singular simple present scrapes, present participle scraping , simple past and past participle scraped)

(ambitransitive) To draw (an object, especially a sharp or angular one), along (something) while exerting pressure.

Synonym: scuff
She scraped the wooden plate with her fingernails.
That car often scrapes the shallowest of humps because of its low ground clearance.
...
(transitive) To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.

Just use whatever you can scrape together.

(computing, transitive) To extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such as a screenshot or a formatted web page.

They didn't provide an API, so I simply scraped their website.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/scrape

[โ€“] AYO_Official@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago

Fixed, thanks. Sadly url is *** forever.