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Web scraping and extraction
CSS selector
Also called: Selector
A pattern that identifies elements in an HTML document by tag, class, id or attribute, commonly used to target the fields a scraper extracts.
In practice
Selectors break when a site renames a class. That single cause explains a large share of scraper maintenance.
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