Web scraping of a dynamic website using Python with HTTP Client
Dynamic websites that use JavaScript for content rendering and backend interaction often create challenges for web scraping. The traditional approach to solving this problem is browser emulation, but it's not very efficient in terms of resource consumption.
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In this article, we'll explore an alternative method based on in-depth site analysis and the use of an HTTP client. We'll go through the entire process from analyzing a dynamic website to implementing an efficient web crawler using the Crawlee for Python
framework.