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Soft-Block Detection for Web Scraping (Python): Catch ‘HTTP 200 but Wrong Page’
Most scrapers fail silently: the request succeeds but the HTML is a block/consent/login page. Here’s how to detect soft-blocks before parsing.
Retries, Timeouts, and Backoff for Web Scraping (Python): Production Defaults That Work
Most scrapers fail because of networking, not parsing. Here are sane timeout defaults, a retry policy that won’t DDoS a site, and a drop-in requests/httpx implementation.