Need help building a Python program to scrape a website – any tips or libraries to use? or What’s the

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Honestly, BeautifulSoup is fine unless you’re scraping thousands of pages. Scrapy’s overkill for most small projects.

For reliability, mimic human behavior: random delays, scroll the page (if using selenium), and don’t request too fast. Some sites even block you for *consistent* timing—add some randomness.

Pro tip: Save sessions/cookies to avoid re-logging in every time.

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