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Jouini Hamza
Jouini Hamza

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is elixir good for scraping ?

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Oliver Kriška

Check this article. I think Elixir is very good choice for web scraping.
erlang-solutions.com/blog/web-scra...

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Jouini Hamza

I have rewritten a module with elixir poor performance compare to a non clustered nodejs module i think i didn't do it the right way

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Oliver Kriška

If you want I can take a look on it.

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Erlang Solutions

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Björn Grunde

Yes, it does the job just fine :)

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Josh

No reason it couldn't be. The concurrency model would at least lend itself to loading multiple pages at a time