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Romana Vatslav started the discussion How do websites prevent web scraping, and how can you handle these barriers? in the forum General Web Scraping a year ago
How do websites prevent web scraping, and how can you handle these barriers?
Websites use various techniques to prevent web scraping, but how do these methods work, and how can they be managed? One common approach is rate limiting, where the website restricts the number of requests a single IP address can make within a specific timeframe. If your scraper sends too many requests too quickly, you might get blocked.…
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Ekaterina Kenyatta replied to the discussion Scrape customer reviews from Zalando Poland using Python in the forum General Web Scraping a year ago
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The script could benefit from additional error handling to ensure it gracefully manages missing elements. For example, using try-except blocks for specific sections like reviewer names or comments would prevent the script from failing if some reviews are incomplete.
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Ekaterina Kenyatta replied to the discussion Use Go to scrape product categories from Media Markt Poland in the forum General Web Scraping a year ago
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The script could be improved by implementing recursive scraping for subcategories. After collecting the main categories, the script can follow their links to extract subcategories and build a complete hierarchy.
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Ekaterina Kenyatta started the discussion How does web scraping work using Python and BeautifulSoup? in the forum General Web Scraping a year ago
How does web scraping work using Python and BeautifulSoup?
Web scraping with Python and BeautifulSoup is a great way to extract data from websites, but how exactly does it work? The process starts with sending a request to a webpage to get its HTML content. Using Python’s requests library, you can fetch the page’s source code as a string. But then comes the question: how do you parse and make sense of…
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Ken Josefiina replied to the discussion Scrape delivery times from Empik Poland using Node.js in the forum General Web Scraping a year ago
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The script could be improved by adding support for scraping delivery times across multiple locations. By simulating input for different postal codes, the scraper could collect regional delivery estimates, providing a more comprehensive dataset.
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