Browserless web data extraction: challenges and opportunities
Most modern web scrapers use an embedded browser to render web pages and to simulate user actions. Such scrapers (or wrappers) are therefore expensive to execute, in terms of time and network traffic. In contrast, it is magnitudes more resource-efficient to use a “browserless” wrapper which directly...
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Association for Computing Machinery
2018
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