A data researcher is conducting a web scrape of a retail website to gather updated product details. The site runs extra code in the browser to change inventory listings after the main page loads. The data is not visible at the initial request. Which approach should the researcher use to retrieve data that reflect these changes on the page?
Use a specialized script-supported environment that processes client-side code to show the updated listings
Re-download the HTML source to see the updated listings
Contact the server’s database directly to pull raw product data
Analyze the web server logs to track the final details shown to users
A script-driven environment or headless browser can execute the code that modifies the page after the main load, allowing the tool to see the resulting, updated content. Simply pulling the HTML page data does not capture changes introduced by those scripts. Direct access to the database is rarely offered, and server logs do not capture how the final content looks.
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