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Des fois j’ai des chapelets d’insultes qui fusent.

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Baby food companies in the US are apparently legally obligated to test their foods for heavy metals content and to publish the lab results on their websites. I have a colleague who is looking to collect this data, so I started looking at the Gerber website.

Not only is the data not available in bulk, the website is *actively* hostile towards scraping. Standard cookie checks, etc... are bad enough. However, here, you have to retrieve data for each UPC/Batch pair one page at a time... and the actual lab results (for **one** UPC/Batch pair, and so about 20 integer values stored in a json blob)... come along with nearly **half-a megabyte** of interface goop.

Ugh.

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