I’ve been struggling with maintaining Puppeteer scripts as website structures keep changing. Every time a DOM element updates, I have to dig through JavaScript to fix selectors. Heard some folks mention visual builders that adapt automatically - does anyone have experience with tools that let you tweak workflows through drag-and-drop instead of rewriting code? How do you handle selector changes without constant JS maintenance?
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I used to battle this daily until I started using a hybrid approach. For static elements, regular selectors work fine. For dynamic sections, I layer in XPath with wildcards. Not perfect, but reduces maintenance by about 40%. Would love to hear if others have better pattern-matching strategies.
maybe try css attribute selectors with wildcards? like [data-testid^=‘partial-’] works sometimes. not perfect tho