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A browser extension for customizing web apps with a spreadsheet view
Deploy a marketplace with no upload functionality, just the ability to download/install adapters Decide where to deploy: Heroku?
Find a persistent datastore (Mongo? Firebase?) and make the marketplace writeable.
There are many existing tools for visual end user scraping. Can we integrate one of them? Criteria: - open source - freely licensed - produces usable output representation of the...
Currently, it's easy for scrapers to break completely, if there's a bug in the scraper or the site changes. How can we have more graceful degradation? Ideas: - isolate each...
Improve on #40 with things like: - a real code editor UI - a good testing workflow for knowing whether your scraper works?
Load adapters stored in local browser storage, and execute them
Minimal editing experience: - see a list of adapters - add a new adapter - edit an adapter's code
Should adapters get auto-updated? How does versioning work? If there's an adapter for a new redesigned version of a website, should that be a major version upgrade or something?
How do users find adapters? Note: It’s not a good idea for the browser extension to poll our server asking “is there a site adapter for this current site” because...
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A browser extension for customizing web apps with a spreadsheet view