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Speed Up Web Scraping with Concurrency in Python

  • Implementing concurrency in web scraping projects can significantly reduce scraping time from hours to minutes or seconds.
  • Concurrency is particularly effective in web scraping as it is primarily I/O-bound, and the Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) in Python is not a significant limitation for I/O-bound tasks.
  • Python offers libraries like asyncio, aiohttp, concurrent.futures, multiprocesssing, and Scrapy for implementing concurrency in web scraping.
  • To avoid issues in concurrent scraping, it is important to control and manage concurrency, handle errors properly, debug asynchronous code, and be respectful to websites by following scraping best practices.

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