Step one will be learning to code in any language. Step two is using a library to help with it. HtmlAgilityPack has always been there for me. Don’t use regex.
Start looking into selenium, probably in Python. It’s one of the easier to understand forms of scraping. It’s mainly used to web testing, though you can definitely use it for less… nice purposes.
All of those things are group consensus though. As in there are plenty of examples when group consensus was the other way and those things (slavery, not allowing women to participate in democracy, extreme inequality) were accepted and practiced freely
Math also isn’t woven into our universe as a thing. You can still decide whether or not something is objectively wrong or false (in math). The same goes for ethics.
Slavery wasn’t accepted. It was widely practiced but it was abolished (mostly) because people agreed it was wrong. Slaves didnt want to be slaves or see their status as slaves as morally good.
Think about that for a moment.
Not allowing women to participate in democracy is another example. Women fought against that and won.
Extreme inequality is still all around us and we almost all agree that its wrong.
Slavery went away because of technological advancement moreso than morality. Once you didn’t need hundreds of people to plant and harvest crops, slavery gets less popular.
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