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Intermediate Scraping Techniques

Intermediate web scraping techniques enhance basic methods by addressing dynamic content, pagination, and data storage. Key strategies include using tools like Selenium for JavaScript rendering, automating pagination, and selecting appropriate data storage options like databases. Best practices emphasize maintaining sessions, implementing retries, and respecting website policies.

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Intermediate Scraping Techniques

Intermediate web scraping techniques enhance basic methods by addressing dynamic content, pagination, and data storage. Key strategies include using tools like Selenium for JavaScript rendering, automating pagination, and selecting appropriate data storage options like databases. Best practices emphasize maintaining sessions, implementing retries, and respecting website policies.

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Intermediate Web Scraping Techniques

1. Introduction
Intermediate web scraping builds upon the basics by introducing more robust methods for
handling dynamic content, pagination, and data storage.

2. Handling Dynamic Content


JavaScript Rendering: Many modern websites load data dynamically using JavaScript. Tools
like Selenium or Playwright can automate browsers to fetch such content.

API Endpoints: Inspect network activity to find and use underlying APIs for cleaner data
access.

3. Pagination and Crawling


Pagination: Automate navigation through multiple pages using URL patterns or next-page
buttons.

Recursive Crawling: Follow links within a site to gather data from multiple related pages.

4. Data Storage Options


CSV/Excel: For simple tabular data.

Databases: Use SQLite, MySQL, or MongoDB for large-scale or structured data.

5. Example Code: Handling Pagination


import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

base_url = 'https://example.com/page='
all_titles = []
for page in range(1, 6):
url = f'{base_url}{page}'
response = requests.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, 'html.parser')
titles = [item.text for item in soup.find_all('h2')]
all_titles.extend(titles)
print(all_titles)

6. Best Practices
Use session objects to maintain cookies and headers.

Implement retry logic for failed requests.

Respect website rate limits and politeness policies.


7. Summary
Intermediate scraping techniques enable you to extract data from more complex sites and
manage larger datasets efficiently.

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