Web Scraping using Lua

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mystery_ace

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Feb 28, 2024, 4:34:56 AM2/28/24
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Long story short, I need to scrape quite a lot of wiki webpages and extract specific elements from it. 


Here's an example of the kind of webpage that I need to scrape. 


I initially did this using python but because this is being run on the lowest possible tier raspberry pi (and it needs to run this task for weeks on end), I've come to the conclusion that python and Bs4 is not a viable option and I want to try and code this using lua. 


From some simple google searches, it seems like there isn't a single recognised solution/framework for lua that lets you parse through HTML


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