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by factsaresacred 1224 days ago
I had a nice experience with https://simplescraper.io for a similar use-case. Was able to scrape a few thousand URLs without too much fuss.

The biggest complication with visual scrapers is all the edge cases. The selector algorithms usually become a mess on any complex website especially if there's uneven data.

Then you have css selectors no longer working and so on. Very brittle.