Pagination
Web ScrapingDefinition
Pagination is the practice of dividing content across multiple pages. Handling pagination in web scraping means automatically navigating through all pages to collect complete datasets.
How It Relates to CrawlForge
Most websites break large datasets into paginated lists -- search results, product catalogs, article archives. A scraper that only fetches the first page misses the majority of the data. Pagination can be URL-based (?page=2), button-based, or use infinite scroll.
CrawlForge crawl_deep follows pagination links automatically, and scrape_with_actions can handle JavaScript-based pagination like infinite scroll and "Load More" buttons. This ensures complete data collection without manual page management.
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Related Terms
Web Scraping
Web scraping is the automated extraction of data from websites. It involves programmatically fetching web pages and parsing their content to collect structured information.
Dynamic Content
Dynamic content is web content that is loaded or generated by JavaScript after the initial page load. This includes single-page applications, AJAX-loaded data, and client-side rendered content.
Web Crawler
A web crawler is a program that systematically browses the web by following links from page to page. Crawlers discover and index content across entire websites or domains.
CSS Selector
A CSS selector is a pattern used to select and target specific HTML elements on a web page. In web scraping, selectors identify exactly which data to extract from a page's structure.
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