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Herakles Urias 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?
If hovering over items manually is impractical, I program the script to hover over each element sequentially and capture the data.
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Herakles Urias 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?
Inspecting CSS classes and id attributes for unique identifiers helps locate data within unusual or proprietary tags.
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Herakles Urias replied to the discussion How do I handle sites that block based on unusual request patterns? in the forum General Web Scraping a year ago
Reply to How do I handle sites that block based on unusual request patterns?
I use a mix of user-agents and device emulations to simulate requests from various browsers, which can help bypass pattern detection.
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Herakles Urias replied to the discussion How can I handle data extraction from websites with region-specific restriction? in the forum General Web Scraping a year ago
Reply to How can I handle data extraction from websites with region-specific restriction?
Tor can provide IPs from various countries, but it’s slower and may not work on sites with strong anti-bot measures.
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Herakles Urias started the discussion Methods to monitor housing trends using data from real estate websites? in the forum General Web Scraping a year ago
Methods to monitor housing trends using data from real estate websites?
Zillow, Realtor.com, and Redfin each offer APIs or data on market trends, which I use to track home values, rental prices, and new listings.
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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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