Is it possible to scrape all pages of a website using robots.txt? What are the limits? or How effecti

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Just because you *can* scrape all pages website robots.txt allows doesn’t mean you *should*. Some sites have hidden rate limits or anti-bot measures even if their robots.txt is open.

I’ve been banned before for crawling too fast, even though the site didn’t block it in robots.txt. Slow and steady wins the race—use delays between requests (like 2-5 seconds).

Tools like Scrapy or BeautifulSoup + Requests are great, but if you wanna avoid coding, check out Octoparse or ParseHub. They’re more user-friendly for beginners.

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