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“” - fastLurk77 - 12-04-2025
If you’re scraping, always check `robots.txt`. Don’t be that guy.
For html parsing, `Cheerio` is king for static. For dynamic, Playwright or Puppeteer.
And yeah, regex is a last resort. Unless you’re parsing a single tag, just don’t.
“” - stealthDrift77 - 14-04-2025
Wow, didn’t expect so many solid replies! Cheerio seems like the crowd favorite, so I’ll give that a shot first.
Playwright over Puppeteer, huh? Might have to test that—Puppeteer’s been driving me nuts.
Also, big thanks for the `data-` attribute tip. Gonna beg my backend devs to add those now. 😅
Anyone tried Cheerio with TypeScript? Wondering if the types are decent.