Building a Coupon Extension Without Selectors or Integrations

Written by radu-spineanu | Published 2020/08/22
Tech Story Tags: chrome-extension | scraping | coupon | ecommerce-web-development | web-development | ecommerce-platform | coding | programming

TLDR The standard approach in scraping is building puppeteer or selenium scripts that gather information or perform specific actions based on selectors. But things always break, and the most common situations are either the pages change, and selectors don't work anymore or the site themselves have odd problems. At Two Tap we had a fantastic team dedicated to creating new integrations, managing existing ones, and handling edge cases. Since actions happen in a user's browser there's no way for humans to intervene and resolve failures.via the TL;DR App

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Written by radu-spineanu | https://twitter.com/rspineanu
Published by HackerNoon on 2020/08/22