In recent news, Google has put forth a proposal known as the "Web Environment Integrity Explainer", authored by four of its engineers. On the surface, it
It was coded 8 years ago in Tcl¹ for a one-off project in Belgium. Would you really be interested?
The APIs would have changed dramatically by now & some of the real estate sites no longer exist. Some of the sites brought in CAPTCHAs. It was coded to use Tor & the public transport site is Tor-hostile and also changed the API. It’s also very user unfriendly… a collection of scripts & variety of hacks.
I didn’t publish the code at the time because I worried that it would trigger the target sites to become bot-hostile.
① Also note that I use Tcl for personal use but I resist publishing any Tcl code because I would rather not promote the Tcl language. Why? Because the Tcl have jailed a large portion of their docs in Cloudflare’s walled garden. I believe programming language docs should be openly public.
Are you willing to share the source for said bot?
It was coded 8 years ago in Tcl¹ for a one-off project in Belgium. Would you really be interested?
The APIs would have changed dramatically by now & some of the real estate sites no longer exist. Some of the sites brought in CAPTCHAs. It was coded to use Tor & the public transport site is Tor-hostile and also changed the API. It’s also very user unfriendly… a collection of scripts & variety of hacks.
I didn’t publish the code at the time because I worried that it would trigger the target sites to become bot-hostile.
① Also note that I use Tcl for personal use but I resist publishing any Tcl code because I would rather not promote the Tcl language. Why? Because the Tcl have jailed a large portion of their docs in Cloudflare’s walled garden. I believe programming language docs should be openly public.