Stories from the Web Crawling trenches in web browsers

Fetching Data in JavaScript with urllib

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Feb 6, 2024

JavaScript uses urllib library to fetch data from URLs, including JSON APIs, in web browsers and Node.js environments.

Can I use Selenium with BeautifulSoup?

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Feb 5, 2024

Web scraping with Selenium and BeautifulSoup allows for dynamic page access and data extraction, making them a powerful combination.

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