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Abram Ebbe replied to the discussion What techniques can I use to scrape real-time web chats or comment sections? in the forum General Web Scraping a year ago
Reply to What techniques can I use to scrape real-time web chats or comment sections?
Filtering chat content by keywords as I scrape helps reduce storage demands, especially in high-traffic chat applications.
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Abram Ebbe replied to the discussion How do I handle CAPTCHA challenges that vary in difficulty or type? in the forum General Web Scraping a year ago
Reply to How do I handle CAPTCHA challenges that vary in difficulty or type?
Using external AI-based tools to pre-solve reCAPTCHA images can speed up scraping when encountering Google’s reCAPTCHA.
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Abram Ebbe started the discussion What’s the best way to monitor BookOff Japan’s online store using Python? in the forum General Web Scraping a year ago
What’s the best way to monitor BookOff Japan’s online store using Python?
Requests and BeautifulSoup are great for scraping BookOff’s static listings, including product names, prices, and conditions (e.g., “like new”).
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Desirae Marama replied to the discussion How can I scrape product prices accurately without triggering anti-bot measures? in the forum General Web Scraping a year ago
Reply to How can I scrape product prices accurately without triggering anti-bot measures?
I add user-agent headers that mimic common browsers to avoid looking like a bot. This makes my scraper’s requests look more natural.
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Desirae Marama replied to the discussion What are the best practices for scraping e-commerce sites that allow it? in the forum General Web Scraping a year ago
Reply to What are the best practices for scraping e-commerce sites that allow it?
Scraping during off-peak hours helps reduce server strain. I usually schedule my scripts for late night or early morning times.
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Desirae Marama replied to the discussion What’s the best way to scrape e-commerce sites for product specifications? in the forum General Web Scraping a year ago
Reply to What’s the best way to scrape e-commerce sites for product specifications?
For sites with JavaScript-rendered specs, I rely on Playwright or Selenium to render the full page before scraping.
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Desirae Marama replied to the discussion What techniques can I use to scrape real-time web chats or comment sections? in the forum General Web Scraping a year ago
Reply to What techniques can I use to scrape real-time web chats or comment sections?
Storing chat data in a NoSQL database like MongoDB is efficient, as it allows for flexible storage of real-time, unstructured data.
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Desirae Marama replied to the discussion How do I handle CAPTCHA challenges that vary in difficulty or type? in the forum General Web Scraping a year ago
Reply to How do I handle CAPTCHA challenges that vary in difficulty or type?
I randomize user-agent strings and reduce request frequency, which minimizes CAPTCHA prompts on heavily guarded sites.
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