# Git scraping: track changes over time by scraping to a Git repository

<https://simonwillison.net/2020/Oct/9/git-scraping/>

- Host: [simonwillison.net](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/simonwillison.net/)
- Saved: October 15, 2020 (2020-10-16T01:36:07Z)
- Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/e989627ee1a1/
- JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/e989627ee1a1.json

## What Jamie wrote

I've done this myself not just in Git but you can do a very similar thing with Wiki pages. Nearly all (all?) Wikis track changes on every revision and if you write a simple script to pull data and update the page regularly the changeog gives you the exact details on what is changing.

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT161: Weekly Thing #161 / Letter, Asterisk, You Should Write ✍️](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/161/), Recommended Links

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