Parsing as Response Validation: A New Necessity for Scraping?
Fetch, parse, and store is a web scraping order traditionally effective for most data pipelines. Up until recently, it was the dominating way to collect data, even at scale. With the rise of AI crawlers, however, more sophisticated anti-scraping strategies have become prevalent across the web. Websites have the right to defend themselves from malicious bots, but legitimate public data collection is affected as well. The traditional web scraping process must be rethought, with parsing becoming a part […]