powerschool webscraper?

[David Rysdam]

David Rysdam <david at rysdam.org> writes:
> I had this problem with htmlunit too. It wanted to fire up a browser
> GUI. No, bad tool!
>
> Probably there are no GUI-less, javascript-capable, scriptable tools out
> there. There's probably some way to cobble one together now that guile
> supports javascript, but like I said: time.

It's also making me depressed how terrible the internet has
become. We've made a thing to run on computer that computers themselves
can't use. Why does an extremely simple, automatable task like "check if
posted grades have changed" require a human being to spend valuable time
poking buttons (or programming a very faithful simulation thereof)?

We used to be a tool-making species. Then a tool-using species. Now
we're a tool-used species.