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Comment · 6 years ago
Would you mind explaining why fail2ban is bad?
Comment · 7 years ago
We use it in our CI, just before deployment, to compare the DB structure of what's being tested with the DB structure of our staging or production environment.
It's a last minute check that prevented a lot of mistakes.
Comment · 8 years ago
Facebook Local?
Comment · 8 years ago
Well, it's up for debate. We automate websites on behalf of our users (that is, logged in as them). Which means the site knows at all time who's doing what and can take action in case of abuse.
Also, we see more and more ruling indicating that scraping is in fact legal. Websites can block users according to their ToS but they can't take legal action against them or us. Maybe.
In any case, our platform also provides the tools for anyone to automate any website (make them into an API). That part is just a developer tool.
Comment · 8 years ago
It's similar in the sense that it's a listing of APIs. But we're providing non-official APIs that work by automating / scraping websites. Our platform runs Headless Chrome instances behind the scenes.
As a matter of fact, the automation code is available here: https://github.com/phantombuster/api-store
Comment · 8 years ago
In France we have Anticafe[1]. They charge 5€ per hour spent there in exchange for unlimited wifi, coffee and pastries.
As I understand it they're quite successful. They have opened multiple new cafes in Paris' central neighborhoods.
Comment · 9 years ago
> I think its also worth pointing out that less than 1000 entities owns 40% of the bitcoins.
This is FUD. 1000 wallets own 40% of BTC. See here https://bitinfocharts.com/top-100-richest-bitcoin-addresses....
Comment · 9 years ago
We're developing a library[1] for this use-case. The goal is to have the same simple API for multiple browsers. Right now it supports both Headless Chrome and PhantomJS.
We think we'll begin work on Firefox headless soon. PRs welcome :)
Comment · 9 years ago
Where I work (https://phantombuster.com) we use them for scraping the web.
They're a hassle-free way of getting the data. No need to worry about CORS, sessions, cookies, CSRF and other modern web stuff. Just simulate a human and you’re in.
Personal site: https://martintapia.com ([email protected])
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/martintapia; my proof: https://keybase.io/martintapia/sigs/gDIRFlJk-m3IIBCwtbGwmwqhNg_WwL4bYsPZYPSxEyQ ]