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Because Patreon beefed up their anti-crawler measures again, or maybe it's just some other bug, the imported articles aren't showing the content section anymore.
And almost every creator put the link or main stuff right in that content box, so now it's basically showing nothing

This isn't an anti-crawler measure, only a minor HTML change. Scrapers usually rely on the DOM in a way that makes them fragile and prone to breaking, which is why they need to be maintained regularly to adapt to the interface of sites they scrape.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document_Object_Model

>>69551
it's not even an anti crawler measure, they literally changed up their layout, so text in in a different spot, and the importer looks for text in the old spot. A fix is literally changing 2 lines of code to change where it looks for text, but somehow even that is beyond the devs. they get people's paid cookies for free to share and can't even perform basic maintenance.

I'm not even talking about how pixiv is fucked again, because THAT is an anti scraping measure and im fine with it taking a chunk of time to fix, but not fixing patreon is atrocious.

>>69566
>because THAT is an anti scraping measure

prove it

Actually worse than the patreon importer stopping entirely for me because now the archive is fucked forever (unless the devs reimport text posts)

I for one welcome our new AI absentee overlords.

>>69569
The only dev left (if he's still there) probably isn't even subscribed to anyone at all, not even for testing. It would have to be a reimport from the paying community after this gets fixed and pushed to prod, which, by Kemono standards, can take anywhere from weeks to years.

>>69567
I mean, a lof of people are reporting that the cookies stop working if you change IP's. Sounds like an anti scraping measure. or at least anti account sharing.

>>69569
Yeah, that's the worst, even if it gets fixed tommorow it'll take fucking months to flag every single patreon post with relevant text for reimporting.