How do I implement async web scraping in Python?

Grab httpx, asyncio. Use AsyncClient, semaphore for concurrency, gather tasks. Full code above — tweak for your parse needs.

What's the best concurrency limit for web scraping?

5-20. Servers rate-limit beyond. Test incrementally; add backoff for 429s.

Marginally — with headers, delays. Real armor

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