Stop Using Selenium or Playwright for Web Scraping

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John Watson Rooney

John Watson Rooney

Күн бұрын

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@andydataguy
@andydataguy 8 күн бұрын
Your timing could not have been more perfect on this video brother. Thank you!! 🙌🏾💜 Idk if you have a community or program, but as soon as i get hired im buying it to help support you. As a selftaught dev (formerly digital marketer) your videos were vital in being able to finally wrap my head around data extraction
@hydrosis-v3k
@hydrosis-v3k 10 күн бұрын
holy shit, literally the first proper guide to a decent alternative to web automation.
@zvnman
@zvnman 8 күн бұрын
Thanks for the kind advice! In gratitude to all my clients, I give your referral link)) Keep going bro!!!
@SigKappel
@SigKappel 10 күн бұрын
Thanks John for this update. I have some mission critical scrapes for inventory and this will come in handy when I need to be more stealth.
@realitywords-17398
@realitywords-17398 3 күн бұрын
Great Man.......... You are struggling a lot...... Keep your morale high!
@frankcasanova2132
@frankcasanova2132 10 күн бұрын
JUST WHAT I NEEDED WHEN I NEEDED IT
@gamehubler
@gamehubler 3 күн бұрын
I learn a lot from your video explanations and like your style of sharing it with us, and comes with the fresh air because it is up to date. Can you maybe bring some more complex web scraping examples? Mostly the pages in your showcase were viewable directly or with a login. Would it be possible to bring some examples in the future with GQL sites, it is more difficult to solve these types.
@EnglishRain
@EnglishRain 4 күн бұрын
Thank you i didn't know Playwright isn't really recommended for scraping
@return_1101
@return_1101 9 күн бұрын
The best one! Thank you very much, mr. Rooney!
@kinuthiamatata6040
@kinuthiamatata6040 10 күн бұрын
working with a website that uses WebSocket connections instead of traditional XHR/fetch requests. What's the best way to intercept traffic for scraping?
@JohnWatsonRooney
@JohnWatsonRooney 10 күн бұрын
honestly I haven't got a lot of experience with websockets, but i know you can connect to them via requests/httpx but i dont have any practical exp sorry
@munchcup
@munchcup 10 күн бұрын
Search on KZbin scraping Ohio state student emails but It's in js which same works for python.
@mehdikaraouet7980
@mehdikaraouet7980 10 күн бұрын
​@JohnWatsonRooney all the respect for honesty and humbleness ❤
@eyayawb
@eyayawb 10 күн бұрын
Reverse engineer the data transfer process. I successfully reverse-engineered an app that pulls data from a Firebase database using a WebSocket connection. I used websockets package to replicate the communication pattern.
@graczew
@graczew 10 күн бұрын
Thanks, mate. This is really helpful.
@JohnWatsonRooney
@JohnWatsonRooney 10 күн бұрын
thanks mate appreciate it
@Analyse_US
@Analyse_US 10 күн бұрын
This is gold! Thanks.
@mvace
@mvace 9 күн бұрын
Thanks John, I was struggling to login to one website for a few days now. It was detecting my automation script. I used selenium-driverless and it works great now. So perfect timing with this video! Do you have any tips on how to handle uploads with selenium-driverless? After I log in to the website I need to upload a file from my local machine but the upload seems to be working differently for selenium-driverless compared to selenium. There is not much in the documentation regarding uploads in selenium-driverless.
@abdelkoddouslaarif1295
@abdelkoddouslaarif1295 8 күн бұрын
okay! this is all good and well, impressive even, but I wanna ask a slightly different question, how do you stay updated with the new alternatives that come out? you always seem to know when something better is out or if something old isn't as reliable anymore or not being maintained... what tech news forums/ community chats do you follow?
@EmanueleCannizzaro
@EmanueleCannizzaro 10 күн бұрын
As usual a great content explained in plain English.
@JohnWatsonRooney
@JohnWatsonRooney 10 күн бұрын
Many thanks!
@dragon3602010
@dragon3602010 9 күн бұрын
so when choosing "nodriver" instead of "SeleniumBase" ? thanks
@JohnWatsonRooney
@JohnWatsonRooney 9 күн бұрын
Try both and see which works best for what you are trying to do
@saadkhan883
@saadkhan883 6 күн бұрын
Sir I am using playwright library to scrap Google maps so please tell is it a good choice to scrap data from GMpaps , because I am still thinking about blocking or recaptcha ...
@nickwoodward819
@nickwoodward819 10 күн бұрын
i'm a bit confused by "using the chrome already installed on your machine" - do you mean the server? or is this a python thing? (I'm using js and would be scraping either in a serverless function or in node)
@kinuthiamatata6040
@kinuthiamatata6040 10 күн бұрын
i agree this might not be easily "automateable" , "You may consider Playwright's connectOverCDP() with a containerized Chrome. Just make sure to expose Chrome's debug port via socat (socat TCP-LISTEN:9222,fork TCP:localhost:9222) and connect to that. This works great with Node/serverless and gives you full browser auto-capabilities."
@JohnWatsonRooney
@JohnWatsonRooney 10 күн бұрын
Sorry to clarify - when you install selenium or playwright,m they install their own version of chrome. these two use the existing install on your pc already (if you have it) so you install chrome as you would normally, no extra install steps etc
@yafethtb
@yafethtb 9 күн бұрын
At last, a web scraping library that does not need another Chromium and uses only my Chrome! I'm waiting for something like nodriver.
@rewazilol
@rewazilol 10 күн бұрын
Do you have experience using Playwright and there being issues? On one hand I know its a test lib, but on the other hand its extremely well funded and well maintained. The nodriver lib looks like it was built by one guy. I'm still kind of not sure which way to go
@JohnWatsonRooney
@JohnWatsonRooney 10 күн бұрын
Playwright it an amazing library, it’s easy to use and works extremely well. But for web scraping you have to monkey around with it as even the most basic WAF can detect it and throw a captcha. Nodriver is build by one guy but it’s open source and removes a lot of the obvious flags that the browser is being controller automatically which is why I’m talking about it here
@serkhetreo2489
@serkhetreo2489 9 күн бұрын
Hi, what if i want to build an unofficial api for a site . Is there a better way
@amrogendiah198
@amrogendiah198 7 күн бұрын
Could you make a video about scraping using AI with python ?
@hw5622
@hw5622 5 күн бұрын
great video! thx!!!!!!!!
@hamzahalli3500
@hamzahalli3500 10 күн бұрын
Thank you
@green-forest-23
@green-forest-23 10 күн бұрын
There's something like this for typescript?
@JohnWatsonRooney
@JohnWatsonRooney 10 күн бұрын
Yes but I forget what it’s called - hopefully Someone else will know
@boniazdaniel
@boniazdaniel 10 күн бұрын
Puppeteer extra plugin? The stealth one
@wisjnujudho3152
@wisjnujudho3152 Күн бұрын
wow. i think i need to modify all of my scrapers.
@phantazzor
@phantazzor 10 күн бұрын
how to scrape an app if there are no web version
@MohanadSaid-u8x
@MohanadSaid-u8x 10 күн бұрын
Liiiiiit 🔥🔥🔥🔥
@DavidChavez-z2v
@DavidChavez-z2v 3 күн бұрын
Como sabes estas cosas excelente
@luisechevarria186
@luisechevarria186 8 күн бұрын
Where does one begin for web-scraping? I am trying to scrape, JS heavy websites, all I see are recommendations to use Selenium/Playwright, this video is not too clear about what to use instead.
@JohnWatsonRooney
@JohnWatsonRooney 8 күн бұрын
Try using selenium-driverless. Similar to selenium but less detectable causing you less issues scraping
@Canda-fh4xc
@Canda-fh4xc 7 күн бұрын
Thank you
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