

Headley Corrie
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Headley Corrie replied to the discussion What techniques can I use to scrape real-time web chats or comment sections? in the forum General Web Scraping 9 months ago
What techniques can I use to scrape real-time web chats or comment sections?
Puppeteer and Playwright can simulate scrolling or clicking on “load more” buttons to capture all messages in longer comment threads.
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Headley Corrie replied to the discussion What are the best practices for scraping financial data from news or stock site? in the forum General Web Scraping 9 months ago
What are the best practices for scraping financial data from news or stock site?
I automate pagination and set delays to avoid hitting rate limits, which is especially important on sites that monitor frequent requests.
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Headley Corrie replied to the discussion How do I approach scraping data that appears only on hover or in tooltips? in the forum General Web Scraping 9 months ago
How do I approach scraping data that appears only on hover or in tooltips?
Some tooltips are loaded as separate AJAX requests, so inspecting network requests while hovering often reveals endpoints for the data.
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Headley Corrie replied to the discussion How can I scrape structured data from sites without standard HTML tags? in the forum General Web Scraping 9 months ago
How can I scrape structured data from sites without standard HTML tags?
Regular expressions can sometimes capture patterns within unconventional tags, though it’s less reliable for deeply nested data.
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Headley Corrie started the discussion How to track product variations like size or color on e-commerce platforms? in the forum General Web Scraping 9 months ago
How to track product variations like size or color on e-commerce platforms?
For sites like Amazon, I capture product variations by scraping dropdown menus or variant selection fields to pull options for size, color, etc.
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