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Headless scraping is in the region of 10x slower and more resource intensive, even when carefully blocking requests such as images. It should always be a second
by samwillis 4y ago
Headless scraping is in the region of 10x slower and more resource intensive, even when carefully blocking requests such as images. It should always be a second choice.
Other than that Playwright is incredible, by far the best browser automation api.
- move-on-by 4y agoFor sure it’s a heavy approach, but if you need a full blown browser with JS, then that’s just what you’ll have to do. Use the right tool for the job.