I’ve found that rotating IP addresses is one of the most effective ways to handle rate limiting. Services like proxy providers can make this easier, but they come with additional costs.

To enhance the scraper, you can add functionality to handle pagination. Audience reviews on RottenTomatoes are often split across multiple pages, and fetching all reviews requires following the “Next” button. Using Selenium, you can simulate clicking the button and scrape additional pages until all reviews are collected. Adding delays between…

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PHP is simple to set up and works well for parsing static HTML with its built-in DOMDocument. However, it struggles with dynamically loaded content, requiring additional tools or API integration.