Interesting that Kerwin Peters is selling it as pure Node with zero deps since most scrapers lean on Puppeteer or Playwright. Curious how long that approach survives before stores start tightening anti bot measures.
@[Ben Kiehl] You're spot on - most scrapers do rely on those tools, and you're right to be skeptical about longevity.
The zero-deps approach works for now because it's lightweight and flies under the radar, but you're absolutely correct that it's a cat-and-mouse game. When sites update their protections, the scraper needs updates too.
Honestly, it's a trade-off - simpler setup today, but might need more maintenance tomorrow. For basic price tracking it holds up okay, but you're right that it's not as bulletproof as the heavy-duty solutions!