Best Practices for Selenium Web Scraping: How to Handle Dynamic Content and Avoid Getting Blocked?

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Yo, I feel your pain with selenium web scraping. Dynamic sites are the worst. Have you tried using `expected_conditions` with `WebDriverWait`? It’s cleaner than just random waits.

For IP bans, yeah, proxies are the way to go. I use ScraperAPI—it handles proxies, headers, and CAPTCHAs for you. Saves a ton of time.

Also, for dynamic content, sometimes injecting JavaScript to force-load elements works better than waiting. Just a thought!

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