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The other half of the internet. Public data from Xiaohongshu, Douyin, Weibo, Taobao and 20 more Chinese platforms, as clean JSON.

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Silkline

Nov 10

My wedding seating tool's main keyword turned out to mean classroom seating

#discuss #seo #webdev #startup

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Silkline

Nov 8

My analytics said 166 people a day. A page-leave beacon said almost none of them were real

#webdev #analytics #javascript #privacy

3 min read

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Nov 6

356 impressions, 1 click at position 11: is it the title or the ranking?

#discuss #seo #webdev #beginners

2 min read

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Nov 4

"Crawled - currently not indexed" on 12 of 13 pages: what I've ruled out on a 3-week-old site

#seo #webdev #google #cloudflare

3 min read

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Nov 2

Turning a photo into a cross stitch chart: picking threads with CIEDE2000

#javascript #typescript #webdev #algorithms

3 min read

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Oct 31

Checking a .pkpass in the browser: manifest hashes, the PKCS #7 signature, and what a green tick can't tell you

#javascript #typescript #webdev #security

9 min read

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Oct 30

32 data APIs for Chinese social media and e-commerce, with real examples

#webscraping #api #china #datascience

6 min read

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Oct 30

Reading Outlook .msg files in the browser: the compound file, MAPI properties, and a body that only exists as RTF

#javascript #typescript #webdev #email

9 min read

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Oct 28

How to get Taobao product data in Python (prices, sales, shops)

#python #webscraping #ecommerce #china

5 min read

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Oct 25

Printing Data Matrix codes at an exact size: modules, DPI and PNG pHYs

#javascript #typescript #webdev #tutorial

5 min read

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Oct 22

Seating wedding guests with constraints: a small optimiser in a Web Worker

#javascript #typescript #algorithms #webdev

5 min read

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Oct 22

Bates numbering PDFs in the browser with pdf-lib: shrink the page, then read the numbers back

#javascript #typescript #pdf #webdev

5 min read

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Oct 19

What's inside a .pkpass file, and how to render one in the browser

#javascript #typescript #webdev #ios

5 min read

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Oct 14

11 scrapers for Chinese platforms in 8 days, and my first $4

#buildinpublic #python #webscraping #sideprojects

4 min read

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Oct 12

Previewing untrusted .eml files in the browser: sandboxed iframe, CSP and blocked remote images

#javascript #security #webdev #html

4 min read

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Oct 6

How to get Xiaohongshu (RedNote) data in Python

#python #webscraping #datascience #tutorial

4 min read

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My wedding seating tool's main keyword turned out to mean classroom seating

Want to connect with Silkline?

My analytics said 166 people a day. A page-leave beacon said almost none of them were real

356 impressions, 1 click at position 11: is it the title or the ranking?

"Crawled - currently not indexed" on 12 of 13 pages: what I've ruled out on a 3-week-old site

Turning a photo into a cross stitch chart: picking threads with CIEDE2000

Checking a .pkpass in the browser: manifest hashes, the PKCS #7 signature, and what a green tick can't tell you

32 data APIs for Chinese social media and e-commerce, with real examples

Reading Outlook .msg files in the browser: the compound file, MAPI properties, and a body that only exists as RTF

How to get Taobao product data in Python (prices, sales, shops)

Printing Data Matrix codes at an exact size: modules, DPI and PNG pHYs

Seating wedding guests with constraints: a small optimiser in a Web Worker

Bates numbering PDFs in the browser with pdf-lib: shrink the page, then read the numbers back

What's inside a .pkpass file, and how to render one in the browser

11 scrapers for Chinese platforms in 8 days, and my first $4

Previewing untrusted .eml files in the browser: sandboxed iframe, CSP and blocked remote images

How to get Xiaohongshu (RedNote) data in Python