I had a different take -- if one hasn't been keeping up with the "arms race" of modern web scraping (and the countermeasures some sites are adopting these days)

I had a different take -- if one hasn't been keeping up with the "arms race" of modern web scraping (and the countermeasures some sites are adopting these days), or with the JS scraping ecosystem generally, then it seems like this article could make for a decent introduction.