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Life & fun · June 17, 2014

Artoo

The client-side scraping companion

Artoo launched on June 17, 2014 with 74 votes, #547 of 1,531 launches that month. The site was still online in September 2026, 12 years on.

What it does

artoo.js is a piece of JavaScript code meant to be run in your browser’s console to provide you with some scraping utilities. This nice droid is loaded into the JavaScript context of any webpage through a handy bookmarklet you can instantly install by dropping the above icon onto your bookmark bar. Web security has widely improved in the last years and most websites prevent JavaScript code injection nowadays by relying on Content Security Policy headers. Now that you have installed artoo.js let’s scrape the famous Hacker News in four painless steps: That’s it. You’ve just scraped Hacker News front page and downloaded the data as a pretty-printed json file*. « Why on earth should I scrape on…from medialab.github.io

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