I scrape 10 sports sites for betting odds using Python requests, and it's free. I set a user-agent header to avoid being blocked, and I sleep 2 seconds between requests to respect rate limits.
I parse the HTML with BeautifulSoup, extract the odds, and save them to a SQLite database. The script runs every 6 hours via Hermes Agent cron job, and it's never been blocked.
If you're scraping data, use requests + BeautifulSoup. They're free, simple, and work for 90% of sites.
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