devcodejournal.hashnode.devAnatomy of a Production-Ready Scraper: Dissecting the Ulta.com Repository Most web scraping tutorials follow a predictable path: they show you how to fetch a single page, parse one HTML element, and print it to the console. While this works for a "Hello World" example, it f20h ago·6 min read
devcodejournal.hashnode.devBuilding a Dynamic Google Shopping Feed from Etsy DataManual data entry kills e-commerce profitability. For Etsy sellers, maintaining a Google Shopping feed often involves a tedious cycle of exporting CSVs, reformatting columns, and uploading them to Google Merchant Center. By the time the file processe...Feb 19·5 min read
devcodejournal.hashnode.devPrompt-to-Parser: Building a Product Hunt Scraper in 5 Minutes with LLMsBuilding a web scraper usually feels like a chore. You open DevTools, hunt through nested div tags, and copy cryptic CSS classes like styles_item__jY_S2. Then, you write fragile parsing logic that breaks the moment the website updates its UI. If you'...Feb 10·5 min read
devcodejournal.hashnode.devDefensive Scraping: Writing Resilient Selectors That Survive Site RedesignsIt’s Monday morning. You sit down with your coffee, check your logs, and see a wall of red. Your primary data pipeline, which has been running smoothly for months, just crashed with a NoneType has no attribute 'text' error. You inspect the target web...Feb 5·6 min read
devcodejournal.hashnode.devBuilding a Universal Product Feed from Amazon Data with Python & PandasScraping data is often only half the battle; formatting it is the other half. You might successfully extract thousands of product details from Amazon, but if that data isn't structured correctly, it's useless for downstream applications. Ad platforms...Feb 3·6 min read