Video scraping: extracting JSON data from a 35 second screen capture for less than 1/10th of a cent

from blog Simon Willison's Weblog, | ↗ original
The other day I found myself needing to add up some numeric values that were scattered across twelve different emails. I didn't particularly feel like copying and pasting all of the numbers out one at a time, so I decided to try something different: could I record a screen capture while browsing around my Gmail account and then extract the...