Honestly, it depends on the project. For screen scraping node js, I use both—Cheerio for static data dumps and Puppeteer when I need to interact with the page.
Hidden gem: Apify SDK. It’s built for scraping and handles a lot of the annoying stuff (retries, proxies, etc.).
And CAPTCHAs? Yeah, no easy fix. Sometimes you just gotta accept that some sites don’t wanna be scraped.
Hidden gem: Apify SDK. It’s built for scraping and handles a lot of the annoying stuff (retries, proxies, etc.).
And CAPTCHAs? Yeah, no easy fix. Sometimes you just gotta accept that some sites don’t wanna be scraped.