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

Screen scraping is alive, but it’s on life support lol.

Between rate limits, IP bans, and legal threats, it’s not for the faint of heart.

If you’re gonna do it, at least use residential proxies to avoid getting blocked instantly.

Tools? Try Zyte (formerly Scrapinghub) or just roll your own with Python.

And *always* read the site’s ToS—some will sue you over this stuff.