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by tiagozip 391 days ago
scrapers usually don't render a webpage, else their scraping wouldn't be efficient at all.
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hathawsh 391 days ago
Is that still true? There are so many SPAs out there now that if I were to create a web spider today, I would plan to just render a lot of the pages in a browser rather than fight the status quo. Efficiency wouldn't be my top concern.
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boredhacker3 390 days ago
That’s bullshit
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