clouddeveloper.hashnode.devStop Fixing Broken Scrapers: A Guide to Schema-First Data ExtractionWe’ve all been there: it’s 3 AM, and your data pipeline has stalled. A website you’ve been scraping for months decided to wrap their price tag in an extra <div> or rename a CSS class from product-price to item-price-v2. Your scraper, built on a house...3d ago·5 min read
clouddeveloper.hashnode.devStop Saving Bad Data: Validating Scraped Content in Real-TimeWe've all been there. You spend hours perfecting a scraper, set it to run overnight, and wake up to a 50MB CSV file. But when you open it, your heart sinks. Half the price columns are empty, the product titles are actually "Access Denied" messages, a...Feb 10·5 min read
clouddeveloper.hashnode.devStop Silent Failures: Preventing Bad Data in Amazon Web ScrapingEvery web scraping developer has experienced the "Scraper Nightmare." You launch a script to crawl 50,000 Amazon product pages, leave it running overnight, and wake up to a 100% success rate in your logs. But when you open your database, you realize ...Feb 5·6 min read
clouddeveloper.hashnode.devHow to Scrape and Flatten Multi-SKU Product Variants with PlaywrightE-commerce scraping is rarely as simple as grabbing a title and a price. In practice, a single product page often represents a complex web of nested variants. A t-shirt isn't just a t-shirt; it is a collection of specific Stock Keeping Units (SKUs) r...Feb 3·6 min read