Company
Date Published
Author
Alexander Fashakin
Word count
2110
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

The article provides a comprehensive guide on how to scrape data from Google Scholar using Python, focusing on setting up a virtual environment and employing libraries like Beautiful Soup, pandas, and Selenium to fetch and parse search results. It highlights the challenges of manual scraping, such as potential IP bans and frequent script maintenance, and offers solutions like using proxies, IP rotation, and VPNs to avoid these issues. Additionally, it introduces Bright Data's services as an efficient alternative to manual scraping, offering ready-to-use datasets and scraper APIs that handle IP rotation and CAPTCHA solving. The guide aims to simplify data collection by providing both a step-by-step tutorial for manual scraping and recommending professional data solutions to ensure smooth and reliable scraping operations.