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by aDyslecticCrow 46 days ago
Not using JavaScript would also make the crawler fail on squarespace and wix website builders.

The age where the web was usable at all without JavaScript is long gone. No scraper would get much scraping done without JavaScript these days.

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You mean by embedding? How can an external site fail on squarespace and wix website builders?
A crawler would fail on all Squarespace and Wix sites if they all require JavaScript.