this tutorial is legit solid if you're just getting your feet wet with web scraping - the progression from static HTML to Js-rendered stuff is super smooth and practical. But it's kinda glossing over the gnarly production stuff that'll bite you in the ass later. We're talking basically zero error handling beyond slapping a try/catch on there, and 1000 credits can actually get you 200-1000 pages depending on how complex things are. The guide also doesn't really dig into the fun stuff like selector brittleness, validating your data, or what happens when you need to scale past scraping one page at a time. If you're actually trying to deploy something real, you're gonna need to bolt on rate-limiting, hook up a database, set up monitoring, and wrangle environment-based config - basically the other 95% of web scraping that nobody talks about until you're already in production hell. So yea great primer for learning the basics, but don't treat it like a cheat code for production - you've still gotta deal with all the edge cases, not hammering servers into submission
this tutorial is legit solid if you're just getting your feet wet with web scraping - the progression from static HTML to Js-rendered stuff is super smooth and practical. But it's kinda glossing over the gnarly production stuff that'll bite you in the ass later. We're talking basically zero error handling beyond slapping a try/catch on there, and 1000 credits can actually get you 200-1000 pages depending on how complex things are. The guide also doesn't really dig into the fun stuff like selector brittleness, validating your data, or what happens when you need to scale past scraping one page at a time. If you're actually trying to deploy something real, you're gonna need to bolt on rate-limiting, hook up a database, set up monitoring, and wrangle environment-based config - basically the other 95% of web scraping that nobody talks about until you're already in production hell. So yea great primer for learning the basics, but don't treat it like a cheat code for production - you've still gotta deal with all the edge cases, not hammering servers into submission