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Scraping bilingual data: the Arabic/English traps that quietly corrupt your dataset
Most scraping advice assumes one language. Build for a bilingual market and you meet a category of bug that never throws an exception: the request succeeds, the HTML parses, and every field you wanted comes back empty.
Here is what I learned building job datasets that have to work in both Arabic and English.
The bug that returns null instead of failing
I was fetching job detail pages and extracting the stated seniority and employment type. The parser looked for the labels the ...
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