Data Extraction
Aadithyan
AadithyanMar 11, 2026

Your BeautifulSoup scraper worked perfectly yesterday. Today, a target site redesign hashed the CSS classes, and your pipeline quietly filled with nulls. Maintaining brittle DOM selectors burns countless engineering hours, with nearly a third of enterprises reporting revenue loss directly tied to data downtime. If you want to know how to extract table data from a website reliably, stop reaching for HTML parsers first. The best extraction method bypasses the DOM entirely to target underlying API

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Aadithyan Nair

Founding Engineer, Olostep · Dubai, AE

Aadithyan is a Founding Engineer at Olostep, focusing on infrastructure and GTM. He's been hacking on computers since he was 10 and loves building things from scratch (including custom programming languages and servers for fun). Before Olostep, he co-founded an ed-tech startup, did some first-author ML research at NYU Abu Dhabi, and shipped AI tools at Zecento, RAEN AI.

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