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

If you’re screen scraping, you *have* to respect robots.txt. Some sites will straight-up sue you if you ignore it (looking at you, LinkedIn).

Tools? BeautifulSoup + Requests for simple stuff, Playwright for heavy JS.

And please, for the love of god, don’t scrape at 100req/s. You’re why the rest of us get blocked.