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Truck Driver Turned Coder Finds RSS Beats Web Scraping
A self-taught Python developer and truck driver in Japan was blocked over 20 times while scraping a major news site. He switched to using RSS feeds via feedparser, which worked immediately. The experience led him to build puoppo, an AI summarization app.
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A useful reminder that RSS remains a reliable, low-friction alternative to scraping, especially for developers building personal projects.
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How I Got Blocked 20 Times While Web Scraping—and Found the Fastest Hidden Delivery Route: RSS →
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