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📰 Smart Article Extractor extracts articles from any scientific, academic, or news website with just one click. The extractor crawls the whole website and automatically distinguishes articles from other web pages. Download your data as HTML table, JSON, Excel, RSS feed, and more.

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Why isn't it scraping articles from the following website?

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ybierens opened this issue
a year ago
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Patai5

a year ago

Hi Yannick, It seems like the articles are loaded dynamically, try setting useBrowser to true. Let me know if it helps. Thanks!

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ybierens

a year ago

Thank you, now it does work! Would it be wise to always setting useBrowser to true? Are there any drawbacks except for it being expensive?

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Patai5

a year ago

Awesome, glad to hear :D Browser search is slower compared to non-browser search, which makes it more expensive. There are no other drawbacks, only advantages like the ability to scrape dynamic web pages (your case), at the sacrifice of speed. Happy scraping!

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You can set it to true only if the initial scrape will not work. That way you first scrape all sites with the cheaper method and only fallback to browser

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ybierens

a year ago

Hey! Thank you for your reply! Where can I find that option? I don't see it under the 'browser options' section.

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It is there 'Use Browser (Puppeteer)'

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ybierens

a year ago

Ah i see, I thought you had to specifically set it as a fallback, but as I understand it now that's how it always works then.

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