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Elea Aelita replied to the discussion What are the best practices for scraping financial data from news or stock site? in the forum General Web Scraping a year ago
Reply to What are the best practices for scraping financial data from news or stock site?
Storing scraped data with timestamps helps track changes and allows me to create a historical dataset for analysis.
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Elea Aelita replied to the discussion How do I approach scraping data that appears only on hover or in tooltips? in the forum General Web Scraping a year ago
Reply to How do I approach scraping data that appears only on hover or in tooltips?
CSS pseudo-elements like :hover can sometimes be manipulated to show hidden content in the browser for easier scraping.
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Elea Aelita replied to the discussion How can I scrape structured data from sites without standard HTML tags? in the forum General Web Scraping a year ago
Reply to How can I scrape structured data from sites without standard HTML tags?
If data is loaded via JavaScript, I look for embedded JSON or XML, which often contains structured data more easily parsed.
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Elea Aelita started the discussion How to collect cryptocurrency prices from CoinMarketCap or Binance? in the forum General Web Scraping a year ago
How to collect cryptocurrency prices from CoinMarketCap or Binance?
CoinMarketCap has a dedicated API that provides access to price, volume, and market cap data for various cryptocurrencies.
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Elea Aelita became a registered member a year ago
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Headley Corrie 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?
Puppeteer and Playwright can simulate scrolling or clicking on “load more” buttons to capture all messages in longer comment threads.
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Headley Corrie replied to the discussion What are the best practices for scraping financial data from news or stock site? in the forum General Web Scraping a year ago
Reply to What are the best practices for scraping financial data from news or stock site?
I automate pagination and set delays to avoid hitting rate limits, which is especially important on sites that monitor frequent requests.
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Headley Corrie replied to the discussion How do I approach scraping data that appears only on hover or in tooltips? in the forum General Web Scraping a year ago
Reply to How do I approach scraping data that appears only on hover or in tooltips?
Some tooltips are loaded as separate AJAX requests, so inspecting network requests while hovering often reveals endpoints for the data.
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