A significant improvement to the scraper would be handling pagination. Etsy reviews are often split across multiple pages, requiring the scraper to navigate through each page. By identifying and automating the “Next” button in Selenium or parsing the pagination URLs in BeautifulSoup, you can ensure complete review collection. Adding a delay…

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To enhance the scraper, implement pagination handling. Overstock displays products across multiple pages, and scraping the full dataset requires navigating through these pages. Automating this process using Selenium’s click simulation or parsing “Next” button links with BeautifulSoup ensures comprehensive data collection.