When his father needed to find a person inside a 23-year-old electoral roll, manual searching meant opening and reading 305 government PDFs one by one. Instead, this data engineer reverse-engineered the portal, extracted part lists through hidden APIs, automated PDF retrieval with Playwright, an...
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