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David Maja replied to the discussion Tracking discount percentages on e-commerce websites with Ruby in the forum General Web Scraping a year ago
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When prices are inconsistent or missing, I add error handling to skip such products. Logging these cases helps me review and update the scraper logic later.
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David Maja started the discussion What data can you scrape from VRBO.com rental listings using Ruby? in the forum General Web Scraping a year ago
What data can you scrape from VRBO.com rental listings using Ruby?
Scraping rental listings from VRBO.com using Ruby allows you to collect information like property names, prices, and amenities. Ruby’s open-uri library for making HTTP requests and nokogiri for HTML parsing provides an easy and efficient way to extract structured data. Below is an example script for scraping property data from VRBO.
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Lenz Dominic replied to the discussion Scraping car listings with prices using Node.js and Cheerio in the forum General Web Scraping a year ago
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I use conditional checks to handle missing fields. For instance, if the price field is unavailable, I set a default value like “N/A” and log the issue for later review.
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Lenz Dominic replied to the discussion Scraping event details using Python and Playwright in the forum General Web Scraping a year ago
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Adding caching for previously scraped pages saves time and bandwidth, especially for event pages that don’t update frequently.
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Lenz Dominic started the discussion How to extract fundraiser details from GoFundMe.com using Python? in the forum General Web Scraping a year ago
How to extract fundraiser details from GoFundMe.com using Python?
Scraping fundraiser details from GoFundMe.com using Python can be helpful for analyzing campaigns, such as gathering information on titles, goals, and amounts raised. By using Python’s requests library for sending HTTP requests and BeautifulSoup for parsing HTML, you can efficiently extract relevant data. The process involves sending a GET…
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Jeanne Dajana replied to the discussion Collecting hotel reviews with PHP and cURL in the forum General Web Scraping a year ago
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For sites with CAPTCHAs, I integrate third-party CAPTCHA-solving services, though I try to minimize triggering them by reducing request frequency.
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