Welcome to Syntax. Today we've got a show for you on web scraping and reverse engineering

APIs. So it's been a while since we've done a show like this and it's a personal hobby of mine.

I've written so many scrapers in my day

and I've learned quite a few things about

how do you scrape data off of web pages how do you interact with web pages in a way where

maybe they didn't necessarily mean for you to use the website in that way. So today we're going to go into all the

tips and tricks and tools on writing a web scraper for your own benefit. My name is

Wes, I'm a developer from Canada with me as always

to Scott. How you doing today Scott? Oh I'm doing okay man. Hey we had a

wild weekend we had our like school auction because our kids go to public schools here so they you know have

fundraisers and stuff and my wife Courtney decided to be the co-chair of the

auction which we've heard is kind of like a hell job. Everybody is often talked about how that's not something that you want to do, but she decided to step up and try to co-chair it up and my gosh, dude, they crushed it. She, uh, just she raised the, they raised the most money they've ever raised here that everything was like

went off without a hitch the event was great all the parents were happy it was

just like a wild weekend, but man we've been we've been a little

stressed over here at the household kind of leading up to this event so it's it was

really a cathartic to get that out and you know it was such a release that like on

Sunday she was just totally wiped and so it was just like what a what an eventful weekend

but man it was it was really cool I got to do some

dancing at the the event too did you auction yourself off is it was it like one of those

like dinner with mr. Tolinsky I wish no it was uh no it was, no, it was, you know, just, there's like a, all the parents

donated a bottle of wine so then you could, you know, try to win 50 bottles of wine or

whatever or different events people were putting

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