Why your scraper breaks every time a site is redesigned — and how to make it heal itself
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Every scraper I've ever written died the same death. Not with an error — with silence. The site shipped a redesign, my CSS selectors matched nothing, and the script kept running and returning empty fields. I'd notice days later when the data looked wrong. The usual fixes all have a catch: Hand-writ…
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- 2026-10-24 07:39 · DEV Community — AI
Why your scraper breaks every time a site is redesigned — and how to make it heal itself