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New browser based demo#1306

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@gnyman gnyman commented Feb 4, 2026

The demo has been broken for a long time #1173 and #1188

I played around with GitHub Spark throw and put together a in-browser demo, and then used claude to decouple it from Spark.

It doesn't require any python backend but runs it in the browser with Pyodide, thus should be easier and cheaper to host. It could even be brought into this repository to make it a official demo.

The demo is currently hosted at https://gnyman.github.io/dateparser-demo-app/

The demo has been broken for a long time scrapinghub#1173 and scrapinghub#1188

I played around with GitHub Spark throw and put together a in-browser demo, and then used claude to decouple it from Spark.

It doesn't require any python backend but runs it in the browser with Pyodide, thus should be easier and cheaper to host. It could even be brought into this repository to make it a official demo.
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Honestly, giving the last experience, I am inclined to not repeat the mistake of pointing to an online demo, and instead simply remove the existing link 😅

No strong opinion, though. I’ll let other people share their thoughts.

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gnyman commented Feb 4, 2026

Personally I think a demo is very useful for something like this. Wanting to test it and play with the options to confirm it can handle the use cases I was looking for was the reason I threw this together.

I understand not wanting to be dependent on a third party to keep it working though, I removed all external services but there is of course still a bunch of cdn and pypy dependencies that can break at some point.

No hard feeling is this is not accepted, but I would think removing the broken link would be a good idea either way.

@Gallaecio Gallaecio requested a review from serhii73 February 4, 2026 19:32
@Gallaecio Gallaecio merged commit 169c4ce into scrapinghub:master Feb 5, 2026
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