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Python Scrapy Middleware for Cookies, Proxy, and User Agent

python scrapy middleware cookies proxy and user agent: Learn how to build Scrapy middleware to manage cookies, rotate user agents, and route requests through proxies,...

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Python Scrapy Items, Pipelines, and Data Processing

Learn how Scrapy item classes structure scraped data and how item pipelines validate, clean, deduplicate, and persist it before storage.

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Python Scrapy Pagination and Multi-Page Crawling

Learn how to implement pagination in Python Scrapy to crawl multiple pages efficiently. Covers CrawlSpider rules, manual request loops, offset-based URLs, rate limiting, and error handling.

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Python Scrapy: CSS, XPath, and Link Following

Learn how to select data with CSS and XPath in Scrapy and how to follow links with response.follow or CrawlSpider rules.

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Python Scrapy Spider: Requests, Responses, and Selectors

Learn how Request, Response, and Selector objects work together in a Python Scrapy spider, from issuing requests to parsing pages with CSS and XPath.

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Python Playwright vs Selenium: Which to Use?

Compare Python Playwright and Selenium for browser automation: installation, API design, selectors, waits, parallelism, browser support, and when to choose each.

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How to Scrape Multiple Pages Concurrently with Python Playwright's Async API

Use Python Playwright's async API to scrape multiple pages concurrently. This article covers asyncio.gather, browser context isolation, concurrency limits, retries, and rate limiting.

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Python Playwright Proxy, User Agent, and Headless Browser

Configure a Python Playwright browser with a proxy, custom user agent, and headless mode. Learn where each setting belongs, how to manage multiple proxy contexts, and how to debug common failures.

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Python Playwright Network Interception and Blocking Requests

python playwright network interception and blocking requests: Control network traffic in Python Playwright: intercept requests, block unwanted resources, and modify re...

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Python Playwright: Iframes, Tabs, and Multiple Pages

Work with iframes, tabs, and multiple pages in Python Playwright using frame_locator, content_frame, expect_popup, expect_page, and context.pages.

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