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Stop scraping HTML: JSON-LD already has clean product data
Many e-commerce sites embed structured product data in JSON-LD blocks for search engines, making it easier to extract than scraping visible HTML. The article explains how to parse these blocks using schema.org vocabulary. Developers can save time by targeting these machine-readable annotations instead of writing fragile CSS selectors.
Meridian48 take
The advice is solid for prototyping, but production scrapers still need fallbacks since not all sites use JSON-LD or keep it accurate.
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