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Requests based scraping tutorial
You want to start scraping? Well this guide will teach you, and not some baby selenium scraping. This guide only uses raw requests and has examples in both python and kotlin. Only basic programming knowlege in one of those languages is required to follow along in the guide.
If you find any aspect of this guide confusing please open an issue about it and I will try to improve things.
If you do not know programming at all then this guide will not help you, learn programming! first Real scraping cannot be done by copy pasting with a vauge understanding.
[!badge variant="light" text="Step 0"] Starting scraping from zero
[!badge variant="light" text="Step 1"] Properly scraping JSON apis often found on sites
[!badge variant="light" text="Step 2"] Evading developer tools detection when scraping
[!badge variant="light" text="Step 3"] Why your requests fail and how to fix them
[!badge variant="light" text="Step 4"] Finding links and scraping videos
Once you've read and understood the concepts behind scraping take a look at a provider for CloudStream. I added tons of comments to make every aspect of writing CloudStream providers clear. Even if you're not planning on contributing to Cloudstream looking at the code may help