Appreciation post: finally ditched manual data entry for an AI scraper on my market research

Used to spend every Friday afternoon copying competitor pricing from 20 different sites into a spreadsheet. Took about 3 hours and I always missed something. Last month I set up a simple AI web scraper that pulls all that into a Google Sheet automatically. Now I just review for errors in 20 minutes. Has anyone else found a tool that handles tricky retailer sites with captchas?

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the_phoenix25d ago

Wait... did you have to tweak the scraper much for sites that lazy-load content?

williamd7026d ago

ScraperAPI handles those captcha sites pretty well if you're hitting a wall with raw requests. I had the same issue with a retail site that loaded dynamic tables, ended up using Selenium with undetected-chromedriver to get past their bot detection.