I’ve been working on a few projects recently where I needed structured data from e-commerce and social media sites (like prices, product descriptions, user reviews, etc.). I used to rely on my own scrapers with BeautifulSoup or Scrapy, but as you know, many sites now have rate-limiting, bot detection, or constantly changing layouts.<\/p>\n
Lately, I\u2019ve experimented with Bright Data to access web data from different regions\/IPs \u2014 mostly for testing, not large-scale production. It worked surprisingly well, but I\u2019m curious:<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udd39 What sources or services are you all using when you need consistent or hard-to-access datasets from the web?<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udd39 Any experiences with open APIs, rotating proxies, or maybe even public datasets that saved you a ton of work?<\/p>\n
Would love to hear your approach, especially for projects where the public datasets don\u2019t quite cut it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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