scrapestack: An API for Scraping Sites

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Not every site has an API to access data from it. Most don't, in fact. If you need to pull that data, one approach is to "scrape" it. That is, load the page in web browser (that you automate), find what you are looking for in the DOM, and take it.

You can do this yourself if you want to deal with the cost, maintenance, and technical debt. For example, this is one of … Read article

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