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Is web scraping going to continue to be a viable thing, now that the web is mainly an app delivery platform rather than a content delivery platform? Can you sc

• jjice 6y ago
  I'm not 100% sure what you mean by a 'webasm' site (web assembly powered?), but the article describes scarping via headless browsers which actually render the page and allow you to select elements that are client rendered.
• tluyben2 6y ago
  Maybe it will turn out to be that way, but this is far from reality at the moment. There are not many sites that cannot be scraped statically and there definitely are very few sites/apps that are webasm. It'll change, but who knows how much. At least currently, most scraping professionals are not even using headless browsers as their targets are statically rendered.