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 eat soup with a fork—possible, but why make it harder than it needs to be?

APIs are the way to go if they exist. If not, tools like BeautifulSoup or PyQuery are solid for static sites.

For dynamic stuff, Selenium is your friend.

Just don’t be *that guy* who crashes a site with too many requests.