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Dev.to · John Rooney
1mo ago
The compiler caught a lot. It didn't catch enough.
I built a small web scraping framework in Rust, mostly with an AI doing the typing. It's called...
Dev.to · John Rooney
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Why Your Scraper Breaks Without Warning (And How to Fix That)
Most scraper failures don't raise exceptions. The spider finishes, the pipeline writes a file, the...
Dev.to · John Rooney
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
How to Store What You Scrape (Without Making a Mess)
The default for a first scraper is usually printing to stdout or dumping everything into a JSON...
Dev.to · John Rooney
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Scraping Paginated Sites Without Getting It Wrong
Pagination is where a lot of scrapers quietly go wrong — not with errors, but with missing data. A...
Dev.to · John Rooney
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
How to Handle JavaScript-Rendered Pages Without a Full Browser
The HTML that requests downloads is what the server sends before any JavaScript runs. For a large and...
Dev.to · John Rooney
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Why Your Scraper Works in the Browser But Fails in Python
When a requests.get() call returns a 403, or a 200 with an "Access Denied" body, the first instinct...
Dev.to · John Rooney
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
How to write and publish a Python package to PyPI
I wanted to publish my Scrapy download handler to PyPi - UV made it incredibly easy. Here's how. At...
Dev.to · John Rooney
📣 Digital Marketing & Growth
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
How to tell if a page uses JavaScript rendering (and what to do about it)
You write a scraper, test your selectors in the browser, and everything looks right. Then you run...
Dev.to · John Rooney
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
What to do when websites change and your spider doesn't know
Empty-field-rate monitoring catches selectors that return nothing. It does not catch selectors that...
Dev.to · John Rooney
2mo ago
Scrapy AutoThrottle: How to tune crawl speed without getting blocked
AutoThrottle is one of Scrapy's most useful production features and one of the most commonly...
Dev.to · John Rooney
⚡ AI Lesson
3mo ago
Writing production-ready Scrapy spiders with opencode
AI-enabled code editors can now conjure scraping code on command. But anyone who has used a generic...
Dev.to · John Rooney
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
4mo ago
Why your Python request gets 403 Forbidden
If you’ve had your HTTP request blocked despite using correct headers, cookies, and clean IPs,...
Dev.to · John Rooney
⚡ AI Lesson
4mo ago
Hybrid scraping: The architecture for the modern web
If you scrape the modern web, you probably know the pain of the JavaScript challenge. Before you can...
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