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Soft-block Detection
Catch fake-success HTML responses before they poison your scraper by using content heuristics, structural validation, and retry rules.
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.