requests

The Fetch API provides modern interface for HTTP requests returning promises. I use fetch(url) to make GET requests that resolve with Response objects. The response.json() parses JSON data asynchronously. POST requests need method, headers, and body o

For lightweight data collection, I prefer reliable HTML parsing over brittle browser automation. That means stable headers, polite rate limiting, retries, and explicit extraction rules. If scraping becomes core infrastructure, then I graduate it into