Press enter or click to view image in full size When scraping websites, you inevitably run into anti-bot protection mechanisms. Sites may block bulk requests by IP address, serve difficult CAPTCHAs, ...

Web scraping has been used to extract data from websites almost from the time the World Wide Web was born. In the early days, scraping was mainly done on static pages – those with known elements, tags ...

When you scrape websites with Python sooner or later you’ll hit anti-bot defenses. Sites may throttle or block many requests from the same IP, show CAPTCHAs, or apply other protections. Below I’ll ...