Intro to CSS selectors for scrapers
How to choose resilient selectors that survive minor layout tweaks.
Stable selectors
article.blog-itemwithdata-slug.blog-title,.blog-author,time[datetime],.blog-tag,.blog-excerpt
Scrapify Journal
10 postsHTTP client or browser automation?
A practical decision tree for static pages, SPAs, and hybrid sites.
Pagination patterns that break crawlers
Page numbers, cursors, infinite scroll, and how to model each cleanly.
Respectful scraping basics
Rate limits, robots.txt, caching, and when not to scrape at all.
Parsing HTML tables without pain
Headers, colspan, and converting table rows into structured records.
When the best scrape is an API call
Find the XHR your browser already makes — and reuse it responsibly.
Scraping marketplace search results
Sponsored rows, split prices, review counts, and result pagination.
Product detail pages that look simple
Buy boxes, variants, specs tables, and review blocks in one document.
Waiting strategies that don’t flake
Prefer network and selector readiness over fixed sleeps.
From raw HTML to clean records
Normalize prices, dates, stock flags, and dedupe product IDs.