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I've had some success with running a meta-scraper that will search for known value on a page, then back out the page structure from there. It won't help with r
by edmundsauto 4y ago
I've had some success with running a meta-scraper that will search for known value on a page, then back out the page structure from there. It won't help with randomly generated class names, but 95% of tasks I've written aren't this complex.
For sites that are hard to scrape (usually bigger sites that get scraped a lot), I pivot towards buying a data feed. Economies of scale incentivize these data companies towards putting someone on maintaining the feed full-time.