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1 points·by efishnc·vor 2 Jahren·0 comments

Streetview scraper v1: cheap, arbitrary sized streetview images

loichovon.com
67 points·by efishnc·vor 2 Jahren·10 comments

Nice screenshots of embedded street view containers

loichovon.com
2 points·by efishnc·vor 2 Jahren·2 comments

Show HN: Interactive Mapbox Visualization of Quebec HLMs

hlms-lhovon.pythonanywhere.com
1 points·by efishnc·vor 2 Jahren·0 comments

Adding time-travel to embedded Streetview containers

loichovon.com
2 points·by efishnc·vor 3 Jahren·0 comments

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efishnc
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
Very cool and super clean website! Talk about your infra please!
efishnc
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
As @mplewis said, because it uses the SV API - however, I've since found a way to reduce that cost to practically 0. See https://loichovon.com/posts/streetview-scraper-v2.html

As you say though, another way to go about this would be to scrape the public SV site, which I have not attempted to do. @xnx linked this project in another comment, which seems to do just that: https://tllabs.io/google-street-view-hyperlapse-youtube-vide...

I don't know if/how they evade captchas.
efishnc
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
Ahh I see, those hyperlapses look very cool!!

Going back to your first comment, I originally made this as part of an app with an interactive streetview component. I reused the initialization code I had as the base for this. Re-using that code also makes sure the screenshots taken would be close as what you'd see using the embedded streetview (In our project we had a bunch of remote locations without a lot of SV images, so depending on the search radius used when querying for a panorama, we could end up in vastly different places).

However, I realize that I never even considered scraping the public site, which would allow for hiding your identity by not needing an API key. I'll think about this.
efishnc
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
Say more? I don't understand the technique youre describing and its objective.
efishnc
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
no issues yet. I'll update the post if I get in trouble :D
efishnc
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
Yeah but you're limited to a max size of 640x640, get a Google watermarks and it costs .007 USD per image.

If you check out my other blog posts, I use this as a base to build a scraper that's essentially free.
efishnc
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
> The goal of the design process is (...) to instead characterize the design space for a given problem

Any good resources on how to properly define the design space? What makes it a space more than a list of requirements?
efishnc
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
*coup de grâce ;)
efishnc
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
So in that case there is no materials secret sauce guarded by TSMC, with the customer either submitting the GDS file with all the info, or signing off on the modified version.
efishnc
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
What could be nice is the developer providing some unit tests, and Second using those to ensure the PR is functional, re-generating if not.

Given a set of tests, I guess you could try to generate the code as well, though I could imagine it might overfit on the given tests and create a "hack" solution.