What's the Best Way to Optimize a Web Scrape Script for Large-Scale Data? or How Do You Handle CAPTCH

Caching is a game-changer! If you’re hitting the same pages often, cache responses with Redis or even a simple JSON file.

Also, check if the site has an API—sometimes you can skip scraping altogether.

For heavy-duty stuff, Apache Nutch is a beast, but it’s overkill for simple jobs.