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by sullyj3 2105 days ago
Sure, but it might be the only way to get the data.
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hansvm 2105 days ago
It might be, but _starting_ a scraping project with a headless browser might be excessively expensive if you don't need the additional features.
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lyjackal 2104 days ago
"only" is a bit of an overstatement. The data is always coming from somewhere, it just depends on how much effort needed to reverse engineer the JavaScript code path to the data
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