I got sucked back into the world of web scraping forgetting all I know about API and started using Selenium when I shouldn't have.
Bashing through the forever typing that is Selenium, and then wondering why my line of code
requests.get(url)
only got me the log-in page in a text format.
It was one of the facepalm moments when someone looked at the code and says,
'You forgot to add the authentication to the get request!'.
There is always that day when you are looking too closely in the wrong direction.