The Mantabase Blog

Everything you need to know about crawling. And a bit more than that.

Handy CSS Selectors for Web Scraping

Gone are the days where nerds like us could 'right-click, View Source' on any webpage and find a clean DOM structure where all elements have readable IDs and classes. With modern frameworks like React or Tailwind, DOMs are a messy jungle of auto-generated IDs and meaningless classes.

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Nicolas Baissas

Nicolas Baissas

March 22, 2023

The What, Where and Why of Mantabase

For our first blog post, I wanted to share our backstory. We are, as they say, "tech people". Our team met about a decade ago while working for a (at the time) tiny startup in France. We sat side by side at large desks, punching at our computers at all hours until we were able to ship code we felt proud of and could jump to the next feature...

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Nicolas Baissas

Nicolas Baissas

March 17, 2023