The Alternative to Web Scraping

The “lazy” programmer’s guide to faster, more efficient retrieval of web data

Doug Guthrie
Towards Data Science
8 min readJul 10, 2020

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The Lazy Programmer

According to Larry Wall, the author of the Perl programming language, there are three great virtues of a programmer; Laziness, Impatience and Hubris:

Laziness: The quality that makes you go to great…

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