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		jokethrowaway on Nov 30, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I Built My Own Shitty Static Site Generator I did exactly this several times. Hand off WordPress / Django CMS to untechy people (either hosted or installed on their pc locally), setup a daily scraping job that updates a static website. By using free static hosts (eg netlify) and free scheduled processes somewhere (eg heroku) you can do it for free.

bamboleo on Nov 30, 2020 | [–]

How can you scrape it if it’s on their computer?

ethanpil on Nov 30, 2020 | [–]

What scraping tool did you use? How do you handle forms?

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