[tpm] Scrape covid-19.ontario.ca?

[Olaf Alders]

> On Oct 12, 2020, at 8:02 PM, Felipe Gasper <felipe at felipegasper.com> wrote:
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>> On Oct 12, 2020, at 6:52 PM, zoffix at zoffix.com wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>>> 	Has anyone tried to scrape
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>> Well, it's against terms of use. So, hopefully no one :) https://covid19results.ehealthontario.ca:4443/terms
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> Well I suppose there is that …
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> I was hoping to rig up something so I wouldn’t have to keep filling out that silly form every time I want to check. I get why they would only call if you’re positive, but at least an _email_ to let you know you’re negative would seem feasible.
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> Eh well. At least testing is readily available.

ToS aside, you may have more luck with https://metacpan.org/pod/WWW::Mechanize::Firefox <https://metacpan.org/pod/WWW::Mechanize::Firefox> when scraping something that needs to deal with JavaScript. (I haven’t tried this one myself, though)

Olaf
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