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I stopped using headless Chrome as the default scraper

DEV.to AIΒ·May 9, 2026

The article argues that using headless browsers like Chrome for web scraping is often an overused, expensive, and slow approach, despite its commonality. The author, while developing a web extraction API, advocates for the browser to be an escalation path rather than the default, considering the evolution of the modern web.

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