How do you handle pagination when scraping websites?

[Nora Rhys]

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

[Kanchana Lalita]

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

[Danis Christen]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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.