Prompt
What should I use for scraping websites with lots of pagination?
Latest observation
For websites with lots of pagination, the best tool depends on how the site loads content:
If the site is mostly static HTML
Use:
- Python + Requests + BeautifulSoup / lxml
- Scrapy if you need a larger, more scalable crawler
Why:
- Fast
- Easy to automate page-by-page navigation
- Scrapy handles pagination patterns really well
If the site loads content with JavaScript
Use:
- Playwright (recommended)
- Selenium (older, heavier)
Why:
- Can click “Next” buttons
- Can handle infinite scroll and dynamically loaded pages
- Playwright is generally faster and more reliable than Selenium
If the pagination is huge
Use:
- Scrapy for efficiency and concurrency
- Or combine Scrapy + Playwright if some pages need browser rendering
Good rule of thumb
- Simple paginated pages:
requests + BeautifulSoup - Large-scale crawling:
Scrapy - JS-heavy / infinite scroll:
Playwright - Need both scale and JS support:
Scrapy + Playwright
Important note
Before scraping, check:
robots.txt- site terms of service
- rate limits
If you want, I can recommend a specific stack based on:
- the site type,
- your language preference,
- and whether you need to scrape thousands of pages or just a few hundred.
Brands
Observation history
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Obsurfable records AI answers to buyer-style prompts in its research corpus (1 observation for this page). Metrics are distributions over observations, not a single static ranking.
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Copilot,
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Qwen.
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