Building Reusable Python Scrapers: A Personal Journey
Once upon a time, my Python scripts were a tangled mess, functional but rigid. I knew I had to evolve my approach to make code modular and maintainable, especially when my one-off scripts couldn’t keep up with demands. My journey led me to think differently about scraping projects and to treat them as a modular, structured system. The Limitations of One-Off Scripts Why Modularity Matters For the longest time, I would write code that looks like this. Pretty straightforward, very understandable, and you know it worked. But there’s a big problem with this. It’s not modular. It doesn’t handle anything like errors, and it’s very, very difficult to upgrade and change when things inevitably go wrong. Imagine building a house with bricks glued together. It might stand for a while, but what happens when you need to replace a single brick? You'd probably end up tearing down a...