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Comment by chadwebscraper

I appreciate the response! I also agree - happy to add some clarity to this stuff.

Bot protection - this is handled in a few ways, the basic form bypasses most bot protections and that’s what you can use on the site today. For tougher sites, it solves the bot protections (think datadome, Akamai, incapsula).

The consistency part is ongoing, but it’s possible to check the diffs and content extractions and notice if something has changed and “reindex” the site.

100k URLs is a lot! It could support that, but the initial indexing would be heavy. It’s fairly resource efficient (no browsers). For scale, it’s doing about 40k/scrapes a day right now.

Appreciate the comments, happy to dive deeper into the implantation and I agree with everything you’ve said. Still iterating and trying to improve it.

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