I Stopped Writing TikTok Scrapers. Five Lines of Python Replaced Them.
If your TikTok scraper still uses Playwright + custom selectors, this post will annoy you. Good. Read it anyway. I burned three weekends last quarter on a "minimal" TikTok scraper. Selector-first, headless, the works. Worked beautifully for nine days. Then TikTok shipped a layout change at 2am UTC a
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