· 4 days ago· Dev.to
Crashing in the Cloud: Why Web Scraping Stacks Don't Survive Production
TL;DR — requests plus BeautifulSoup is the right tool for tutorials, side projects, and one-off audits. It is the wrong tool for any scraper that has to run unsupervised, longer than a quarter, against a site that has even basic bot defenses. I've watched a dozen teams discover this the expensive wa
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