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Hey r/SideProject, Built this at Techforce Global. The problem: most website contact scrapers use Cheerio (HTML parsing). They are fast and they miss 30–40% of contact data on modern websites because emails, phone numbers, and social links increasingly load via JavaScript after the initial HTML response. I wanted to build a contact scraper that actually handles modern websites correctly. Here is what I built and the technical decisions I made: Playwright instead of Cheerio runs a real Chromium b...
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what's the stack? headless browsers are slow at scale
whats the pricing model? per scrape or monthly sub
puppeteer or playwright under the hood? speed must take a hit vs cheerio
full dom rendering tanks margins at scale.
solving the cheerio gap matters, too many scrapers miss real contact data
so are you running puppeteer under the hood for the js rendering?
what are you parsing with instead of cheerio?
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