• 5 strategies to write unblockable web scrapers in Python

    Introduction People who read my posts in scraping series often contacted me to know how could they write scrapers that don’t get blocked. It is very difficult to write a scraper that NEVER gets blocked but yes, you can increase the life of your web scraper by implementing a few strategies. Today I am going to discuss them. User-Agent The very first thing you need to take care of is setting the user-agent. User Agent is a tool that works on behalf of the user and tells the server about which web browser the user is using for visiting the website. Many websites do not let you view the content…