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A backend engineer discovered a 30% bandwidth leak in a scraping pipeline caused by retries on failed requests. To fix it, they built a dynamic retry multiplier in Django that treats network overhead …
A developer turned to large language models to extract product data from e-commerce sites with unpredictable HTML, after traditional scraping tools like BeautifulSoup and Scrapy failed due to constant…
A developer tested the open-source Python framework Scrapling against Lazada Singapore, a production site protected by Google reCAPTCHA and custom slider verification, using only a single 4GB VPS with…
A developer built an AI-based web scraper using GPT-4 to extract product data from a dynamic e-commerce site that changed its HTML structure every few days, breaking traditional CSS selectors. The app…
A developer has created a Markdown file called "agents.md" that teaches AI coding agents how to work on a specific project, solving the problem of AI-generated code not matching a developer's style or…
The article explains how Power Query, a tool built into Microsoft Excel and Power BI, can be used as an efficient alternative to Python for automating web data extraction in enterprise SEO and analyti…