What's the best way to use a page text selector for extracting content? or Does anyone have tips for

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Page text selectors are hit or miss, honestly. If you’re dealing with inconsistent markup, try using regex to filter the output.

Tools like ParseHub or Diffbot are great for less techy folks—they handle the heavy lifting. For devs, PyQuery is a lighter alternative to BeautifulSoup.

And yeah, JS-heavy sites suck. You might need to reverse-engineer their API instead of scraping the frontend.

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