How POST Requests with Python Make Web Scraping Easierby@otavioss
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How POST Requests with Python Make Web Scraping Easier

by Otávio Simões 5mJune 24th, 2021
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When scraping a website with Python, it’s common to use Python to send requests to the server. Selenium is a frequently used tool, but it also comes with some downsides. The alternative is to send a request containing the information the website needs using the request library. In this article, we’ll see a brief introduction to the method and how it can be implemented to improve your web scraping routines. The request library is a popular tool for web scraping and can also be quite unstable sometimes.

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