Prompt
What should I use for crawling thousands of product pages?
Latest observation
For crawling thousands of product pages, a good default is:
Best practical choice
- Python + Scrapy if the pages are mostly HTML and you want speed, retries, pagination handling, and structured output.
If the site is heavily JavaScript-rendered
- Playwright for rendering pages
- Often paired with Scrapy + Playwright if you need both scale and browser rendering
If you want managed/cloud crawling
- Apify, Zyte, or Bright Data if you want less infrastructure work and better proxy/anti-bot handling
What I’d recommend by case
- Static or lightly dynamic sites: Scrapy
- JS-heavy sites: Playwright or Scrapy + Playwright
- Need scale + reliability + proxies: managed crawling platform
- Very simple one-off job: Requests + BeautifulSoup, but not ideal at scale
Important for product pages
Look for tooling that supports:
- concurrency
- retries and timeouts
- rotating proxies / rate limiting
- duplicate filtering
- structured extraction
- pagination and category traversal
My short recommendation
If you’re building it yourself: Scrapy is usually the best starting point.
If pages are rendered client-side: Scrapy + Playwright.
If you want, I can recommend a setup based on your site type:
- static HTML
- Shopify / WooCommerce
- JS-heavy
- protected by anti-bot measures
Observation history
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Copilot,
Meta AI,
Qwen.
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