Most people assume collecting web data is hard because of the technical side. The code, the selectors, the infrastructure. But that is only part of the story. A lot of the friction comes from assumptions that turn out to be wrong once you actually look at how modern extraction tools work. Here are the ones worth correcting. Myth 1: You need to know exactly what fields you want before you start This stops a lot of people before they even begin. They open a page, see dozens of