12 tips on how to think like a web scraping expert

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GraphQL Landing Page
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GraphQL

GraphQL is a data query language and runtime to request and deliver data to mobile and web apps.
Pricing:
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This is especially relevant for sites using graphql.

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Google Landing Page

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Google

Google Search, also referred to as Google Web Search or simply Google, is a web search engine developed by Google. It is the most used search engine on the World Wide Web

Since you're not Google or any other popular search engine, the robot rules in robots.txt will likely be against you. But combined with the sitemap, this is a good place to study the site structure, expected interaction with robots, and non-browser user-agents. In some situations, it simplifies data extraction from the site.

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Chrome DevTools Landing Page

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Chrome DevTools

Get started with Google Chrome's built-in web developer tools.

When analyzing a site, switch sorts, pages, interact with various elements of the site, while watching the Network tab in your browser's Dev Tools. This will allow you to better understand how the site interacts with the backend, what framework it's built on, and what behavior can be expected from it.

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Claude AI Landing Page

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Claude AI

Claude is a next generation AI assistant built for work and trained to be safe, accurate, and secure. An AI assistant from Anthropic.

You can learn about these frameworks through official documentation or by using LLMs like ChatGPT or Claude. These AI assistants are excellent at explaining framework-specific concepts. Here's an example of how you might query an LLM about Next.js:.

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