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You don’t need a good old Python script using Beautiful soup, you can use an LLM with the added benefit of not dealing with that cruft.


An LLM is much slower and requires more resources at runtime than Beautiful Soup (if you are hosting yourself), and could fail to retrieve data. It's a worse solution unless your HTML parser/scraper is broken by website changes.

This is only the case for now, however. I expect this to change in favour of LLMs as time goes on and they become easier to deploy and better at their job.




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