Thoughts Archive
Web Scraping 2.0
June 23, 2021
With the wide adoption of robust front-end frameworks and CSS-in-JS, traditional methods of targeting xpath or CSS selectors for scraping data from web pages are becoming ineffective. However, this new paradigm of front-end development leaves a key opportunity to improve the web scraping experience.
Christopher R Marshall
Enjoys programming web applications; especially in Go and Ruby. Also
enjoys playing ice hockey as a goalie and playing the guitar.