Building Blink: A Documentation Scraper for Toph
Programming contests present unique challenges that often require creative solutions. When Toph, our competitive programming platform, needed to provide offline access to programming language documentation during contests, we faced a few specific problems that existing solutions couldn’t quite solve. It led to the creation of Blink, a specialized tool for scraping and mirroring programming language documentation.
The Problem Competitive programming contests, especially on-site events, operate under strict network restrictions. Participants typically only have access to the contest platform (toph.