WEB-SCRAPING-BASICS5 MIN READ
Dialogue: 'The site changed and the scraper is blank'
Use Five Whys to diagnose a scraping failure without jumping to a brittle patch.
Jordan J Analytics Engineer S Symptom C Cause K Control The blank run 20 sec 0 rows, deadline today Jordan says: 'The site changed. I can patch the selector now, but the dashboard is already late.' Patching without diagnosis can restore today's run while preserving the same failure mode. 0 prices extracted 95% needed completeness
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