What's the Best Way to Handle HTML Parsing in Modern Web Projects? or Struggling with HTML Parsing? A

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If you’re scraping, always check `robots.txt`. Don’t be that guy.

For html parsing, `Cheerio` is king for static. For dynamic, Playwright or Puppeteer.

And yeah, regex is a last resort. Unless you’re parsing a single tag, just don’t.
Wow, didn’t expect so many solid replies! Cheerio seems like the crowd favorite, so I’ll give that a shot first.

Playwright over Puppeteer, huh? Might have to test that—Puppeteer’s been driving me nuts.

Also, big thanks for the `data-` attribute tip. Gonna beg my backend devs to add those now. 😅

Anyone tried Cheerio with TypeScript? Wondering if the types are decent.



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