Honestly, free scraping tools are hit or miss. BeautifulSoup + requests is my go-to for small projects. Lightweight and doesn’t scream "I’M A BOT" at every site.
For bigger stuff, Apify has a free tier that’s decent if you’re okay with cloud-based. But yeah, throttling is real.
Pro tip: Rotate user agents and slow your requests. Sites like Cloudflare *hate* fast, repetitive scraping. Learned that the hard way.
For bigger stuff, Apify has a free tier that’s decent if you’re okay with cloud-based. But yeah, throttling is real.
Pro tip: Rotate user agents and slow your requests. Sites like Cloudflare *hate* fast, repetitive scraping. Learned that the hard way.