Why web scraping industry tend to use CSS selectors instead of XPath? What is better to select nodes in HTML: CSS selectors or XPath queries? We discuss these questions in this episode.

#SerpApiPodcast is about SERP (search engine results pages) and e-commerce data scraping: parsing, circumvention of blocking, web automation, proxies, legal part of scraping, performance, data extraction and validation. Use cases for SERP data scraping: SEO, local SEO, ML models, news monitoring, OSINT, voice assistant, ecommerce competitor research.

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CSS vs XPath for web scraping | #SerpApiPodcast

SerpApi processes tons of searches daily. Still, SerpApi code base and a product itself are simple. Julien, our CEO, shares his experience on how it's possible.

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#SerpApiPodcast is a podcast is about SERP (search engine results pages) and e-commerce data scraping: parsing, circumvention of blocking, web automation, proxies, legal part of scraping, performance, data extraction and validation.

Use cases for SERP data scraping: SEO, local SEO, ML models, news monitoring, OSINT, voice assistant, ecommerce competitor research.

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SerpApi provides the fast, easy, and complete API to scrape Google and other search engines: https://serpapi.com

Keep A Software Product Simple | #SerpApiPodcast ep.6

How to continuously test and maintain a Web data scraping API.

SerpApi processes several millions of searches per day. We have integration tests and thousands of lines of parser code. We'll share our approach to testing and maintaining SerpApi code base.

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#SerpApiPodcast is a podcast all about SERP data scraping. Brought to by SerpApi team.

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How To Continuously Test And Maintain A Web Data Scraping API | #SerpApiPodcast, ep.7

Scraping SERP data, improving performance, and hosting a podcast at https://serpapi.com

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