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What’s the best way to scrape media files (images, videos) from a website?
You can use BeautifulSoup to parse the HTML and extract image or video URLs, then download them using Python’s requests library.
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Selenium can be useful if the media files are dynamically loaded through JavaScript.
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For batch downloading images, the wget command can be scripted to automate downloads.
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Make sure to check the robots.txt file to ensure you’re allowed to scrape media files from the site.
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Tools like youtube-dl are excellent for video scraping, though they only work for supported platforms.
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You might want to throttle your downloads to avoid overwhelming the server.
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