Is screen scraping still a reliable way to extract data from websites? or What are the best tools and

Honestly, screen scraping feels like playing whack-a-mole these days.

Every time you find a workaround, the site updates something.

I’d recommend looking into APIs first—way less headache if they’re available.

If you *have* to scrape, check out Scrapy or BeautifulSoup + Selenium. They’re not perfect, but they get the job done.