Scraping

Ugh. Shoulda been literally anyone else in the final four. I’m NOT mad. Unfortunately, the incredibly fun and chaotic 2023 Men’s College Basketball tournament had a real stinker of an ending, as UConn went berserk en route to their fifth championship and third since 2010. And not only did they beat everyone, they absolutely demolished the hell out of everyone, notching double-digit victories in all six games of their run....

Intro: College basketball Reddit game threads “wow worst refs i’ve ever seen in my life” – someone, every single game thread ever made Reddit is a bad website you can go to if you want to waste some of the precious, distressingly finite time you have on earth. I, apparantly, want this on a fairly consistent basis, and this time of year, one of my favorite places to do it is reddit’s college basketball forum, /r/CollegeBasketball....

I like the manga / anime One Piece. In the world of One Piece, notorious pirates and outlaws are given bounties by the sinister World Government. A number of characters went up in value in the most recent chapter (ch. 1058), so I decided to make a little chart showing each character’s most recent bounty. I didn’t feel like manually searching through every chapter for the bounties, so I figuerd it would be easier to scrape them from a fan wiki, thereby profiting by the work of some nerd who has already done so....