Macrobius on Nostr: After bit of research... there are two parts to this project PROJECT 1/ write ...
After bit of research... there are two parts to this project
PROJECT 1/ write something to assist people downloading their personal information conveniently, which might run into the 100s of individual pages
Details of preliminary investigation below. Essentially, there is no non-aggressive, possibly dangerous, way to scrape the relevant parts of the studentaid.gov website with a software tool ('bot'). I recommend saving the webpages using Firefox rather than a Chrome/Chromium based browser, for reasons I will go into later, if you want to progress to project 2.
PROJECT 2/ convert those pages automatically to pdfs for your files.
I will focus on this, and try to provide a tool to run over html pages and convert them to PDF artifacts, which as other have noted, can be merged using Adobe software; and, I would add, can be digitally signed and thus time-stamped. How well electronic vs printed documents might hold up in a legal setting, I can't advise. I think lawyers will always tell you to print things out.
PROJECT 1/ write something to assist people downloading their personal information conveniently, which might run into the 100s of individual pages
Details of preliminary investigation below. Essentially, there is no non-aggressive, possibly dangerous, way to scrape the relevant parts of the studentaid.gov website with a software tool ('bot'). I recommend saving the webpages using Firefox rather than a Chrome/Chromium based browser, for reasons I will go into later, if you want to progress to project 2.
PROJECT 2/ convert those pages automatically to pdfs for your files.
I will focus on this, and try to provide a tool to run over html pages and convert them to PDF artifacts, which as other have noted, can be merged using Adobe software; and, I would add, can be digitally signed and thus time-stamped. How well electronic vs printed documents might hold up in a legal setting, I can't advise. I think lawyers will always tell you to print things out.