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Aloysius Alby replied to the discussion How do you handle asynchronous programming in JavaScript vs. Python? in the forum General Web Scraping a year ago
Reply to How do you handle asynchronous programming in JavaScript vs. Python?
JavaScript’s event loop makes async programming very efficient, especially for I/O-bound tasks, while Python’s asyncio has a steeper learning curve.
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Aloysius Alby replied to the discussion Should I switch from JavaScript to Python for data science in 2024? in the forum General Web Scraping a year ago
Reply to Should I switch from JavaScript to Python for data science in 2024?
Unless you have a specific reason to use JavaScript for data science (e.g., deploying models in the browser), Python is the better choice.
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Aloysius Alby replied to the discussion How do you handle error handling in JavaScript compared to Python? in the forum General Web Scraping a year ago
Reply to How do you handle error handling in JavaScript compared to Python?
Both languages require similar patterns for error handling, but Python’s simplicity makes it easier to trace exceptions and fix issues quickly.
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Aloysius Alby started the discussion How do I handle scraping pages with endless AJAX requests? in the forum General Web Scraping a year ago
How do I handle scraping pages with endless AJAX requests?
Watching network requests in the browser’s dev tools usually reveals AJAX endpoints. Directly calling these endpoints is often more efficient.
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Odilo Gaios replied to the discussion What’s the best way to learn Golang for backend development? in the forum General Web Scraping a year ago
Reply to What’s the best way to learn Golang for backend development?
Work on projects like REST APIs or microservices to get hands-on experience with Go’s concurrency model using goroutines and channels.
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Odilo Gaios replied to the discussion How do you handle asynchronous programming in JavaScript vs. Python? in the forum General Web Scraping a year ago
Reply to How do you handle asynchronous programming in JavaScript vs. Python?
Python introduced asyncio for handling asynchronous tasks, and the async/await syntax in Python works similarly to JavaScript.
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Odilo Gaios replied to the discussion Should I switch from JavaScript to Python for data science in 2024? in the forum General Web Scraping a year ago
Reply to Should I switch from JavaScript to Python for data science in 2024?
While you can do some basic data manipulation with JavaScript, Python’s ecosystem is far more advanced for AI/ML and analytics.
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Odilo Gaios started the discussion What’s the best approach to scraping PDF documents online? in the forum General Web Scraping a year ago
What’s the best approach to scraping PDF documents online?
I use pdfplumber or PyPDF2 in Python to extract text from PDFs directly, which works well for text-heavy documents.
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