To enhance the scraper’s functionality, you can add pagination support for extracting data from multiple pages. This involves identifying the “Next” button link on the page and programmatically navigating to subsequent pages. By iterating through all available pages, the scraper can collect a complete dataset for a specific category. Adding…

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To enhance the scraper’s robustness, you can incorporate error handling for missing elements or unexpected changes in the page structure. For example, if a product listing is missing a price or rating, the scraper should log the issue and continue processing the remaining products. Try-catch blocks can help handle network issues or timeouts…

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Scraping Yelp.com using Ruby allows you to collect valuable business information such as names, ratings, locations, and reviews. Ruby’s open-uri for HTTP requests and nokogiri for parsing HTML provide a straightforward way to extract this data. By targeting Yelp’s search pages, you can gather data from multiple businesses in a specific category…

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