#data scraping software

[krytus]

sat down to do some writing and every process decided to attack my computer so now ive uninstalled reinstalled and uninstalled again adobe programs and killed the ms365 apps on my laptop (which i had for FREE but somehow ai bullshit got put in despite me turning off all updates) so NOW i have to download the word standalone program i have from a license i paid EIGHTY DOLLARS for. but the offline installer is FOUR GIGABYTES for some unholy reason.

[arolesbianism]

Some more concept designs but this time for two guys I’ve never talked abt before oops

[sonshinegreene]

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[foodspark-scraper]

Food Scraping API – Scrape food data using API

In today's digital age, data is king, and the culinary world is no exception. Food enthusiasts, recipe developers, restaurateurs, and food bloggers are constantly on the lookout for reliable and efficient ways to gather information about ingredients, nutrition, and recipes. Enter the Food Scraping API, a powerful tool that opens the door to a flavorful world of culinary data.

The Essence of Food Scraping APIs

Food Scraping APIs are a specialized form of web scraping, a technique used to extract data from websites. These APIs are designed to harvest culinary information from various online sources, such as recipe websites, food blogs, and nutritional databases. They empower developers and data enthusiasts to collect and integrate data seamlessly into their applications, websites, and culinary projects.

The Bounty of Culinary Data

Food Scraping APIs provide access to a wealth of culinary data, offering a variety of insights and information, including:

1. Recipes Galore

With these APIs, you can access a vast repository of recipes from across the globe. Whether you're seeking Italian pasta recipes or Japanese sushi creations, Food Scraping APIs make it possible to gather a wide range of culinary ideas.

2. Ingredient Details

Get in-depth information about ingredients, from their nutritional values to preparation methods and substitutes. This data is invaluable for individuals looking to maintain a balanced diet or cater to specific dietary requirements.

3. Restaurant Reviews

For the foodies who love dining out, Food Scraping APIs can fetch restaurant reviews, ratings, and menus, helping you decide where to enjoy your next meal.

4. Nutritional Information

Stay health-conscious by accessing nutritional information for various dishes. Track calories, macronutrients, and more with ease.

5. Cooking Techniques

Food Scraping APIs can also provide information on different cooking techniques, from the basics of sautéing to the intricacies of molecular gastronomy.

The Magic Behind Food Scraping APIs

These APIs work by sending HTTP requests to specific websites and extracting data from their HTML structures. They can retrieve information such as recipe ingredients, cooking instructions, reviews, and images. However, utilizing Food Scraping APIs comes with some essential considerations:

1. Legal and Ethical Concerns

Before you start scraping food data, it's crucial to respect website terms of service and copyright laws. Some websites might have strict policies against scraping, so always ensure that you're scraping data responsibly and within the boundaries of the law.

2. Data Cleaning and Structuring

Data scraped from websites may not always be in a neatly structured format. It often requires cleaning and organizing to be useful. This process might involve removing irrelevant information, standardizing data formats, and handling missing or inconsistent data.

3. Rate Limiting

To avoid overloading a website's servers and to prevent being blocked, many Food Scraping APIs have rate limiting or request throttling mechanisms. Be mindful of these limits when designing your scraping routines.

Building with Food Scraping APIs

Here's a glimpse of how developers and data enthusiasts can put Food Scraping APIs to use:

1. Recipe Apps

Create mobile or web applications that provide users with an extensive library of recipes, including detailed instructions and ingredient lists.

2. Nutrition and Diet Tracking

Design applications that allow users to input ingredients and serving sizes, and automatically calculate the nutritional content of their meals.

3. Restaurant Discovery

Develop tools that help users discover nearby restaurants, read reviews, and view menus, all in one place.

4. Culinary Blogs and Magazines

Automate the process of content creation for food blogs or magazines by pulling in fresh recipes, tips, and stories from the web.

5. Personalized Meal Planning

Leverage Food Scraping APIs to suggest recipes and meal plans tailored to individual dietary preferences, allergies, or nutritional goals.

The Future of Food Scraping APIs

The world of culinary data is ever-expanding, and Food Scraping APIs are set to evolve with it. As technology advances, we can anticipate improved accuracy, more extensive coverage, and enhanced integration possibilities.

In conclusion, Food Scraping APIs are the key to unlocking the vast world of culinary information found on the internet. Whether you're a home cook looking for new recipes or a developer aiming to create innovative food-related applications, these APIs offer a feast of data at your fingertips. Just remember to scrape responsibly and ethically to ensure a savory and sustainable data journey.

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[auressea]

@devopstim thanks for the detailed comments in the notes! are you able to confirm the rumour:

Continuing to use old versions of Win Office come with serious security vulnerabilities which can make your computer open to trojans/malware?

AI using your writing to train.

Hey writerly friends! Here's your warning that Google is making updates to terms and service allowing them to mine your data and train AI with it. It's focused on emails right now but Google docs facing a similar change is on the horizon.

Keep your eyes peeled for terms of service updates because you've already accepted future changes once you hit accept the first time. Unpublished novels do not have the same copyright protections as published novels and lawsuits are much more difficult to win. I would highly recommend anyone with a large amount of writing in Google docs start removing it from that platform.

If you don't want your writing used to train AI (and to be clear you won't be paid for it) then it's time to start looking at alternatives to Google Docs.

Some thoughts on alternatives

Microsoft Word - unlikely to implement AI training

Microsoft Word is possibly the safest bet at the moment. The Office suite makes most of it's money from corporate licensing. That depends heavily on strict privacy rules. The risk to their reputation is too high to even attempt it on just the personal version of Word. If you want to be very very cautious, get Word Professional as there is ZERO chance of it being used for AI scraping.

$159.99 USD one time purchase OR subscription model for $69.99 per year which comes with all of the Microsoft Office suite and significantly more cloud storage.

Microsoft Word Professional is $439.99 USD. You really don't need it for writing.

Scrivener - unlikely to implement AI training

Scrivener would probably not survive the kind of controversy AI scraping would cause as their customers are exclusively writers.

$59.99 USD one time purchase per platform (if you switched from windows to mac you would need to repurchase.)

Libre Office - read all the terms and conditions or don't risk it.

Libre Office has an AI tool. There are no stories circulating about them scraping user's data but they're not near as big as Google and may not have drawn enough attention yet.

Free! (Which unfortunately makes data scraping more likely.)

Also don't forget:

Platforms like Ao3, Wattpad, Smashwords and possibly even Tumblr are all being targeted by AI companies for data scraping. In fact OpenAI are being sued for doing just that.

Be careful where you post your writing.

That's all folks!

[tofumoons]

well. guess im finally moving to libre office.

[titleknown]

While I really hate the narrative of "tech bros" because of how it conflates shitty CEOs with non-shitty base-level programmers, and how it conflates Dunning-Kruger-y early adopters with people who Know Their Shit about computers...

...On the AI art issue, I will say, there is probably a legit a culture clash between people who primarily specialize in programming and people who primarily specialize in art.

Because, like, while in the experience of modern working illustrators a free commons has ended up representing a Hobbseyan experience of "a war of all against all" that's a constant threat to making a living, in software from what I can tell it's kinda been the reverse.

IE, freedom of access to shared code/information has kinda been seen as A Vital Thing wrt people's abilities to do their job at a core level. So, naturally, there's going to be some very different reactions to the morality of scraped data online.

And, it's probably the same reason that a lot of the creative commons movement came from the free software movement.

And while I agree a lot with the core principles of these movements, it's also probably unfortunately why they so often come off as tone-deaf and haven't really made that proper breakthrough wrt fighting against copyright bloat.

It also really doesn't help that, in terms of treatment by capital, for most of our lives programmers have been Mother's Special Little Boy whereas artists (especially online independent artists post '08 crash) have been treated as The Ratboy We Keep In The Basement And Throw Scraps To.

So, it make sense the latter would have resentment wrt the former...

[draconym]

nightshade is basically useless https://www.tumblr.com/billclintonsbeefarm/740236576484999168/even-if-you-dont-like-generative-models-this

I'm not a developer, but the creators of Nightshade do address some of this post's concerns in their FAQ. Obviously it's not a magic bullet to prevent AI image scraping, and obviously there's an arms race between AI developers and artists attempting to disrupt their data pools. But personally, I think it's an interesting project and is accessible to most people to try. Giving up on it at this stage seems really premature.

But if it's caption data that's truly valuable, Tumblr is an ... interesting ... place to be scraping it from. For one thing, users tend to get pretty creative with both image descriptions and tags. For another, I hope whichever bot scrapes my blog enjoys the many bird photos I have described as "Cheese." Genuinely curious if Tumblr data is actually valuable or if it's garbage.

That said, I find it pretty ironic that the OP of the post you linked seems to think nightshade and glaze specifically are an unreasonable waste of electricity. Both are software. Your personal computer's graphics card is doing the work, not an entire data center, so if your computer was going to be on anyway, the cost is a drop in the bucket compared to what AI generators are consuming.

Training a large language model like GPT-3, for example, is estimated to use just under 1,300 megawatt hours (MWh) of electricity; about as much power as consumed annually by 130 US homes. To put that in context, streaming an hour of Netflix requires around 0.8 kWh (0.0008 MWh) of electricity. That means you’d have to watch 1,625,000 hours to consume the same amount of power it takes to train GPT-3. (source)

So, no, I don't think Nightshade or Glaze are useless just because they aren't going to immediately topple every AI image generator. There's not really much downside for the artists interested in using them so I hope they continue development.

[nochd]

A friend pointed me to a thing called Atlantis Word Processor. I've started a trial period and it's looking good so far. It promises that I only need to buy it once and then I own a copy forever, which is very appealing.

So, without telling us, Microsoft has removed WordPad from our computers. Anything you used to use WordPad for will now open in Microsoft Word.

At the same time, Microsoft have inserted an AI feature called "Copilot" in Microsoft Word which runs automatically unless you turn it off.

I've been using WordPad rather than Word for twenty years because every time they make Word fast enough to be convenient, they stuff it with "features" and slow it down again. I don't need a grammar checker and I can spellcheck well enough without a red wiggly line and I don't want to have to manually turn off the less-than-helpful auto-replacements for when I'm writing a fictional name that happens to have a common misspelling in it. The only thing I ever needed to open anything in Word for was to check the word-count.

But this? This is vastly worse.

I'm looking into a thing called LibreOffice, but it doesn't seem to have a bug-free way to edit documents in Rich Text Format (the one WordPad saves things to).

[ovaryacted]

Even though I know it’s all intentional, I truly hate how we’ve become forced to normalize AI. I do think that the manufacturing of Artificial Intelligence was not done with malicious intent and has the capabilities of actually doing good, but time and time again ai is being used in literally everything for the worst reasons and getting its getting harder to escape.

From AI being used to scrape people’s hard work all over the internet, to giving predators and abusers more power in fabricating porn of strangers, to being used to strengthen racial bias in surveillance technology and aid in the development of weapons of war and mass destruction against marginalized groups of people…it’s just too fucking much. It’s so exhausting wanting to live in a world where we just didn’t need or have any of this shit, and it wasn’t like this a few years ago either. But now you can’t step outside without seeing something about AI, or a promotional ad for a new system to install. You can’t engage online anywhere without coming across AI software, and literally every single device in our present day implements AI to some degree, and it’s so fucking annoying.

I don’t want to keep worrying about the next idiot that’s spoon feeding my work into their AI system because they lack humanity and imagination. I don’t want to have to manually turn off AI detection on all of my apps and my phone just to use something. I shouldn’t have to be more mindful about the media I consume to distinguish whether or not it’s original or just more AI slop. I know it’s all intentional since we live in a hyper-capitalist world that cares more about profit margins & rapid productivity. But I really do vehemently hate how artificial intelligence has become such a fundamental aspect of our day to day lives when all it does is make the general population dumber and less capable of thinking for themselves.

Sincerely fuck AI. And if you use AI, I really do suggest you read up on how the data centers built to manage these AI systems suck up all of our resources for a simple prompt input. Who cares about answering a question in ChatGPT, entire communities don’t have water because they’re too busy cooling down the servers where people ask what 6 + 10 is cause their brains are so fried they can’t fire a single fucking neuron.