Practical writeups on web scraping, anti-bot tactics, structured extraction, SERPs and the messy realities of building data pipelines for AI.
Web scraping is the process of extracting data from websites. One popular library for web scraping is Puppeteer. Puppeteer is a Node.js library that provides a high-level API to control headless Chrome or Chromium over the DevTools Protocol.
The issues of legality and ethics surrounding web scraping are a massive grey area. While some may be in favor of web scraping, others might not share the same enthusiasm. This is what makes the subject so controversial.
With the increasing adoption of client-side frameworks, being able to render web pages often requires JavaScript execution. This is paramount for data scraping.
