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Is a scraper that works on ten test pages really ready for production? The first version usually is, until bigger datasets bring errors, missing records, and duplicates. This article shows how to design for failures and recovery instead.

How I Built a Web Scraper That Doesn’t Break in Production ...

Elsie RaineeElsie RaineeOct 151 min read
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Is a scraper that works on ten test pages really ready for production? The first version usually is, until bigger datasets bring errors, missing records, and duplicates. This article shows how to design for failures and recovery instead.
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How I Built a Web Scraper That Doesn’t Break in Production
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How I Built a Web Scraper That Doesn’t Break in Production

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