Scope the scrape before you write code
Define a web scraping job with clear suppliers, inputs, process, outputs, customers, constraints, and measures before coding.
The move: scope the data supply chain before the scraper. A web scrape has the same failure pattern as any process improvement project: people jump to execution before they have agreed what the process is supposed to produce. SIPOC gives you a compact way to prevent that. It asks for suppliers, inputs, process, outputs, and customers. ASQ's SIPOC+CM version adds constraints and measures, which are especially important for scraping because sites can restrict access, change markup, throttle requests, or expose data you should not collect. Supplier and input are not the same thing The supplier is the source, such as…
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