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Just curious what people are using n8n for.

I just finished setting up a workflow that sends me a Telegram message every night about photography opportunities for the next day. It puts together weather data, POIs (which I defined for my location), sun/moon position, milky way visibility, cloud cover, etc. The message then simply tells me if it's worth it going out in the morning.

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[–] HerrLewakaas@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why screenshot and parse? Can't you just parse the html directly?

[–] ISOmorph@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Since the dawn of LLMs it's virtually impossible to scrape web content. Headless browsers have become basically useless. I actually have to automate keyboard inputs to simulate the navigation. I could maybe try to write the javascript cache to file but honestly it's just faster that way.

[–] HerrLewakaas@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

What why, I'm scraping html just fine