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• ↓ The problem
• ↓ A real example
• ↓ How it's built
• ↓ When it's the wrong tool
• ↓ On naming
• ↓ Top Alternatives to mand.is

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"I've been working on a small project that uses whereami and nearme to do some local scraping and experimentation with LLMs to build enriched datasets. The details of that project are for a future post, but the short version is I needed to fetch web pages, extract some data and move on."

"If you're on a Mac and find yourself needing to do light scraping work on websites as they are rendered—not as they are sent over the wire—please consider trying tezcatl:"

"curl handles about 70% of what I need. Most pages serve a usable version of their content in the initial HTML response and you can pipe curl into whatever you want—namely Simon Willison's llm tool in this case, which I adore."

"But some sites render everything client-side with JavaScript and come back as soulless husks. A <div id="root"></div> and a pile of <script> tags—an illegible affront to a medium inherently centered around reading and the written word. Oh, the horror. The horror."

Key Topics & Focus Areas for mand.is:

The problem

A real example

How it's built

When it's the wrong tool

On naming