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Trying to make a Automator job on my Mac that goes to a certain website, chooses a beginning date, prints the report and then advances the date by one day and prints the report over and over. Please help?
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iMac (M3, 2023)
Search for and test a web-scraping tool that meets the requirements.
Python is a pretty common choice for scrapers, though there are others.
Automator, not so much.
The other option is integration with the data driving website, if it’s part of your own organization, or if the data can be exported in a format that does not require scraping.
Scraping tends to be precarious, and has a habit of failing when the website changes. Or potentially also if your scraper creates too much load too fast, too.
I’d also start looking for another job too, because this boss is… someone I’ve met before.
Search for and test a web-scraping tool that meets the requirements.
Python is a pretty common choice for scrapers, though there are others.
Automator, not so much.
The other option is integration with the data driving website, if it’s part of your own organization, or if the data can be exported in a format that does not require scraping.
Scraping tends to be precarious, and has a habit of failing when the website changes. Or potentially also if your scraper creates too much load too fast, too.
I’d also start looking for another job too, because this boss is… someone I’ve met before.
It might make more sense to see if the site has an API that can then be leveraged using a bash, zsh, or python script. This will yield much more consistent results and be less prone to randomly breaking in the future.
I'm trying to make a Automator job on my iMac
