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

Screen scraping is like trying to sneak into a concert—sometimes you get in, sometimes you get kicked out.

For small projects, it’s fine. But for large-scale stuff, you’ll need proxies, custom headers, and maybe even CAPTCHA solvers.

Check out Octoparse if you want a no-code option.

And yeah, legal stuff is messy. Some courts say scraping public data is fine, others don’t.