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  • Nora Rhys

    Member
    11/04/2024 at 4:52 pm

    For sites using AJAX to load more content, monitor the network tab for API calls and replicate them.

  • Kanchana Lalita

    Member
    11/05/2024 at 7:49 am

    If the page uses infinite scrolling, Selenium or Playwright can simulate scrolling.

  • Danis Christen

    Member
    11/07/2024 at 10:10 am

    I typically inspect the pagination structure to see if there’s a predictable pattern in the URL (e.g., page=2). I then increment the page number until there’s no more data, which stops the script when all pages are scraped.

  • Oskar Dannie

    Member
    11/08/2024 at 7:46 am

    Many times, sites have hidden pagination APIs that power the ‘next’ button. Inspect the network requests to see if there’s a JSON endpoint or similar. You can then scrape the JSON directly, skipping HTML parsing altogether.

  • Raja Lakeshia

    Member
    11/08/2024 at 10:03 am

    For infinite scrolling, I use Selenium to simulate scrolling, waiting for new data to load each time. You can control the scroll rate and set timeouts to ensure all items are loaded.

  • Aravinda Govind

    Member
    11/08/2024 at 10:21 am

    Scrapy’s pagination support is helpful if you’re using that framework. It can auto-detect pagination links based on your rules, which reduces custom coding, and it stops when no next link is found.

  • Darrell Terpsichore

    Member
    11/09/2024 at 6:32 am

    I typically inspect the pagination structure to see if there’s a predictable pattern in the URL (e.g., page=2). I then increment the page number until there’s no more data, which stops the script when all pages are scraped.

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