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

Screen scraping still works, but it’s *way* more high-maintenance than it used to be.

Dynamic sites? Pain. Anti-bot measures? Bigger pain.

I’ve had decent results with Selenium + some smart delays between requests.

Also, Cloudflare is the *worst*. If a site uses it, good luck.

As for tools, check out Diffbot—it’s pricey but handles a lot of the heavy lifting.