Web Scraping with requests & BeautifulSoup

Building a Responsible Scraper

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requests.Session: Why You Always Want One

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↗learner can use requests.Session for connection pooling and shared headers

↗learner can scrape paginated sites by following next-page links

↗learner can implement rate limiting with time.sleep()

↗learner can add retry logic with exponential back-off

↗learner can read and respect robots.txt

↗learner can cache HTTP responses to avoid redundant requests