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BeautifulSoup Selectors Not Resilient to Layout Changes (no fallback chain) #11

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The HTML selectors used (specific div class names or meta tag attributes) are tightly coupled to a point-in-time snapshot of Facebook's rendered HTML. Facebook's frontend undergoes frequent A/B testing and incremental rollouts, meaning selectors that work today may silently return None or empty strings tomorrow. There is no schema validation or fallback selector chain.

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