Isn't it frustrating to find a website packed with great data, but there's no official API or easy way to access that data? As a developer, you have the tools to extract and utilize this data. Of course, we're talking about web scraping.

This talk is about the tools and techniques that extract data from the public web. Do you make a fetch call? Do you need puppeteer or playwright? How about VPNs or proxies? We’ll also discuss the legal and ethical considerations of web scraping. This session includes live demonstrations using a custom-built scraper to extract data from the Roller Coaster Database.

I do this work professionally and have a learned a lot of useful tidbits.