Chad scraper

dramaticcat@sh.itjust.works to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world – 1014 points –
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Everyone loves the idea of scraping, no one likes maintaining scrapers that break once a week because the CSS or HTML changed.

I loved scraping until my ip was blocked for botting lol. I know there's ways around it it's just work though

I successfully scraped millions of Amazon product listings simply by routing through TOR and cycling the exit node every 10 seconds.

lmao, yeah, get all the exit nodes banned from amazon.

That’s the neat thing, it wouldn’t because traffic only spikes for 10s on any particular node. It perfectly blends into the background noise.

Queue Office Space style error and scrape for 10 hours on each node.

Or in the case of wikipedia, every table on successive pages for sequential data is formatted differently.

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