Use of Pagination

Explore techniques to handle pagination effectively using Puppeteer.

Overview

Pagination is a standard feature on websites that display large datasets on multiple pages of content. Handling pagination in web scraping is crucial to retrieve all the desired data from multiple pages. In this lesson, we’ll explore various techniques to handle pagination effectively using Puppeteer. There are two commonly used methods to handle pagination in web scraping:

  • Using the “next” and “previous” buttons

  • Using URL parameters

Using the “next” and “previous” buttons

In this approach, we use Puppeteer selectors to locate the “next” or “previous” button elements and click them to navigate among pages.

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