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Ask HN: Copy a webpages text and links into markup?
is there a tool or plugin that would extract a webpages html text and links into markup?
As an American living overseas, I am constantly having to translate cooking recipes ( temperature, weight, volumes) although there are calculators for this type of thing (the weight in grams of one cup of flour is different for example than one cup of sugar) I haven't found anything that will just do it in bulk, or for a whole recipe. I realize that it's kind of small potatoes (!) compared to other applications but I was wondering
1) does something like this exist?
2) how easy would it be to make ?
Thanks
I am an artist, born in 1984, which means i'll be 35 years old this year. I taught myself html css and was able to make some rudimentary websites and modifications to my tumblr as a sort of gateway into css, html and code. Recently i made some twitterbots that i was able to copy and paste and cobble together stuff and deploy to heroku! using python and some other stuff (im sure not at all in best practice) and run those for a bit. I often find myself wanting to write programs (for example a scraper for a website) and know enough of the language to find the code on github or look through questions on stackoverflow, but i feel like i am quickly out of depth; as i want to customize or go a bit futher; or sometimes i feel like i need some basic knowledge that i don't have. i was wondering if anyone here has advice as to learning code or as an artist (entrepreneur) how to go about working with developers and coders on very small projects. thanks so much