Web Scraping
Playwright Async Page Pool: 10x Scraping Speed via Resource Blocking
Boost Playwright scraping speed by 1000% using connection pooling, route interception, and blocking unnecessary images, fonts, and stylesheets.
3 min
Blocking Heavy Media Resources
When extracting text or prices, downloading 4MB product images and web fonts wastes bandwidth and slows page load times. Route abortion cuts load latency to under 300ms.
fast_scraper.py
async def route_interceptor(route):
if route.request.resource_type in ["image", "media", "font", "stylesheet"]:
await route.abort()
else:
await route.continue_()
# Attach to page
await page.route("**/*", route_interceptor)