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7/26/2026
From 20 Scraping Failures to RSS: A Beginner's Discovery of Structured Data Access

From 20 Scraping Failures to RSS: A Beginner's Discovery of Structured Data Access

Original: How I Got Blocked 20 Times While Web Scraping—and Found the Fastest Hidden Delivery Route: RSS

Short summary

A Japanese truck driver learning Python recounts failing 20+ times at web scraping a news site due to bot detection, then discovering RSS feeds as a clean alternative. The experience inspired building puoppo, an AI summarization app. The article is more personal narrative than technical tutorial, with a brief feedparser code example and significant backstory about the author's learning journey.

  • •Web scraping with BeautifulSoup failed 20+ times against a major news site's bot detection
  • •RSS feeds provided the same data cleanly with just a few lines of feedparser code
  • •Discovery inspired the author's AI summarization app, puoppo, born from this scraping-to-RSS pivot

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