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by latchkey 4934 days ago
In most cases, the site doesn't have an api... so we scrape and take the risk that the structure will change. One thing that helps is using tools which give you jquery-like selectors because they give a lot of freedom and are very easy to write/update.
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I agree, CSS selectors in BeautifulSoup and pyquery make it less messy.