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How to Scrape Data from a Page with Infinite Scroll

Bobate Olusegun on December 11, 2024

Have you ever encountered a web page requiring actions like “clicking a button” to reveal more content? Such pages are called "dynamic webpages," a...
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keyru Nasir Usman • Edited

Rule number 1: Don't scrape people's website if they don't want to be scraped. Always check robots.txt of a website.

Have you ever heard of a scraping Library called 'Crawlee'? Try it. It is nice.

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Model Husband 👑

That's true

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Bobate Olusegun

Yes, that is valid. Here, the webpage owner permitted me to scrape content from the target website. Thanks for pointing that out.

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Can Kutlu Kınay

I spent quite a time in scraping in my past. This article is quite comprehensive, good work!

One note, if you set headless to false it will be headful mode, which is good for trying out as it is instructed here. Once you want to productionize this, it’s better to use headless mode (on by default).

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Bobate Olusegun

Yes, valid point. Thank you for your feedback!

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Dumebi Okolo

This is very good!

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Bobate Olusegun

Thanks a lot!

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Chris Newton

Amazing article, very clear! Thanks for sharing 🙏

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Gabriel Rowan

This is a super clear, well written article ! I haven’t used node.js to web scrape before but now I know how I’d give it a try

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Bobate Olusegun

Wow, thanks for your feedback. I appreciate it!

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Ademola Akinsola

Thank you.

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Bobate Olusegun

Thanks man!

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Mohammed Shuaib Iqbal

Can we use for website with anti bots to scrape the entire content without being tracked.

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Bobate Olusegun

It would most likely not scale through the advanced anti scraping mechanisms like anti bots.

This is just a beginner guide and first step into the world of web scraping. If the target website is a more complex one like the one you are talking about then you need more advanced features like residential proxies, 2Captcha API to solve any reCaptcha puzzle and other advanced techniques.

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Quizify

Cool!