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user89135
user89135

Reputation: 115

How to determine if you need to request from an API or scrape a page?

I asked this question yesterday: Webscraping assistance.

The answer works perfectly, but it leads me to another question, which is how should I have known that this API was available and that scraping the page was completely unnecessary? Is this information that I can find when inspecting the element?

Thank you for any help.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 92

Answers (1)

helenej
helenej

Reputation: 401

You can have a look in the developer console > Network tab and see what requests are made from the website.

Upvotes: 1

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