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Scraping AliExpress Specs: Selectors, Agents, or Neither?
Daniel has a home inventory system that tracks where things physically are, and he wants to add a snapshot function: save an AliExpress URL, pull the page, keep only the technical sheet. No reviews, no price. The obvious plan — define the divs, extract them — runs into a problem that has already happened: AliExpress product pages are client-side rendered, the inline params object is now an empty object, and a parser reading it returns nothing while logging a success. So what are the live options? A maintained Apify actor that returns a parsed specs array, or an agentic extraction layer like…
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