This interests me as well is there any study that has made a comparison between AI scraping and traditional selection techniques over a longer time frame?
AI scraping can reduce maintenance when page structures vary, especially for extracting the same type of information from different layout
okay but i think that the main advantage is when there are multiple sites to scrape with differing page structures. ai could potentially save time by being able to determine how the infformation is being shifted from the old structure nd rewriting ur selectors accordingly. of course u would want to keep the validations in place as well.
this reduces the problematics of maintenance to a certain extent but not eliminates it. in case of conventional scraping, one minor modification in layout could break everything. however ai solutions could cope with these layout modiffications in a better way but i would still recommend performing validation of fields missing nd incorrectly enttered.
Yep, ai scraping make things easier, but I wouldn't blindly rely on it. biggest concerns are data accuracy and consistency. for my workflows, still validate extracted data nd use hybrid approach where possible. It reduces maintenance, but doesn't eliminate monitoring.
