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How do I scrape data from sites using custom fonts or icons?
Tools like Tesseract OCR are useful if the custom fonts render as images. It reads text within images and converts it back into text format.
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Checking the CSS or JavaScript files often reveals the Unicode mappings for custom icons. I translate these codes manually within my script.
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Font Awesome icons and similar libraries can sometimes be scraped as their CSS classes directly without image recognition.
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I sometimes find that simply copying and pasting into a text editor can reveal hidden font or icon text that doesn’t render normally in browsers.
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Selenium is useful for dynamically loaded fonts, allowing me to capture content in real-time.
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Extracting the text using Playwright and checking for any special CSS or JavaScript manipulations reveals additional data.
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Custom-built dictionaries for each icon or font help translate these into readable text, especially for sites using unique icons.
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Browser dev tools often have font viewers that show what each custom character represents, making it easier to match characters.
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