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Nextwebb · 2020-08-16T20:03:19.960Z

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I've never given nodejs a try when it comes to web scrapping, I always turn to python once that is the topic but this article is encouraging me to give it a try.

Node is great for I/O and pretty fast operations 😉.

Very well written, I love scrapping, for me the main challenge was actually saving the data. For instance your prices, your database will explode scrapping all prices on a amazon "daily" any advice on that?

Well, we could setup an implementation where our data is regularly updated at intervals while still using a persistent storage.

Peterson Oaikhenah Sounds interesting, must actually pick this up, I love doing stuff like that.

Daily Dev Tips break a leg techie 😃

Amazing one Peterson Oaikhenah, thanks for sharing!

Thanks Bolaji for reading!

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